Final Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

[Rush Strong]

What is Happening?
This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing
newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.

Will the last person out please turn off the lights? Thank you.

- Rush

[Gene Wirchenko]

On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:48:11 -0700, Rush Strong

Post by Rush Strong

What is Happening?
This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing
newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.

Will the last person out please turn off the lights? Thank you.

Microsoft is handling that.

We will turn on lights elsewhere. Microsoft certainly encourages
people to quit dealing with them.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

[Beverly Howard]

Spend some time today looking at the live forums and the two nntp bridges...

...I'm too old for this... I guess the live forums are so simple that I
can't understand them at all.

Still have no feeling on where people are going on monday... fwiw, the
google group will be open ...if anyone cares ;-)

Beverly Howard

[Stefan Wuebbe]

Post by Beverly Howard
Spend some time today looking at the live forums and the two nntp bridges...
...I'm too old for this... I guess the live forums are so simple that I
can't understand them at all.
Still have no feeling on where people are going on monday... fwiw, the
google group will be open ...if anyone cares ;-)
Beverly Howard

Beverly, when you say "the google group", do you mean this one?
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.fox.programmer.exchange/topics



Regards
-Stefan

[Beverly Howard]

this link? <<

No, the link you posted is the google groups mirror of this group
...which, I assume will end, when the plug is pulled here.

I set up http://groups.google.com/group/foxpro/ since, in my experience,
any google groups forum can be accessed identically to accessing
newsgroups using most email clients...

i.e. plain text, threading, kill lists, filters, spam filtering plus
files and web page options.

It works identically to Mozilla/Thunderbird's newsreader... the only
difference being that the forum folder resides in the email section
rather than the newsgroups section.

If there ends up being any interest, I will build a page on how to set
up mozilla/seamonkey/thunderbird to handle the forum messages.

Beverly Howard

[Stefan Wuebbe]

Post by Beverly Howard
Spend some time today looking at the live forums and the two nntp bridges...
...I'm too old for this...

No, you are not :-)

Post by Beverly Howard
I guess the live forums are so simple that I can't understand them at all.

FWIW, I also do not like their interface very much.

Post by Beverly Howard
Still have no feeling on where people are going on monday... fwiw, the
google group will be open ...if anyone cares ;-)

FWIW2, assumed the text-based NNTP groups is where all the amazing
newsgroup culture came from, then IMHO comp.databases.xbase.fox
would be the somewhat "natural" successor, especially since it had
"always" been there.

On the other hand, since in many regions infrastructure/bandwidth
did increase over the years, the newer web places somewhat make
sense to me.
If so, www.foxite.com and www.universalthread.com would be those
being popular since several years, if you ask me.



Regards
-Stefan

[Demetrios Panayotakopoulos]

Too much of wasted space in the page.

Demetrios, Greece

Post by Stefan Wuebbe

Post by Beverly Howard
Spend some time today looking at the live forums and the two nntp bridges...
...I'm too old for this...

No, you are not :-)

Post by Beverly Howard
I guess the live forums are so simple that I can't understand them at all.

FWIW, I also do not like their interface very much.

Post by Beverly Howard
Still have no feeling on where people are going on monday... fwiw, the
google group will be open ...if anyone cares ;-)

FWIW2, assumed the text-based NNTP groups is where all the amazing
newsgroup culture came from, then IMHO comp.databases.xbase.fox
would be the somewhat "natural" successor, especially since it had
"always" been there.
On the other hand, since in many regions infrastructure/bandwidth
did increase over the years, the newer web places somewhat make
sense to me.
If so, www.foxite.com and www.universalthread.com would be those
being popular since several years, if you ask me.
Regards
-Stefan