Newsgroups demise

[Bob]

I see that today is the final day for MS Newsgroups.

"Final Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community"
<http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless/browse_thread/thread/686d574433eceafa#>

[GTS]

"Bob" <bob@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:IdydnQzIa7eJXp7RnZ2dnUVZ8t2dnZ2d@bt.com...
> I see that today is the final day for MS Newsgroups.
>
> "Final Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community"
> <http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless/browse_thread/thread/686d574433eceafa#>

The shutdown is phased in from 6/1 to 10/1. Some are slated to close
tomorrow and others over the next few months.

[Moe Trin]

On Mon, 31 May 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.internet.wireless, in article
<IdydnQzIa7eJXp7RnZ2dnUVZ8t2dnZ2d@bt.com>, Bob wrote:

>I see that today is the final day for MS Newsgroups.

>"Final Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community"
><http://groups.google.com/group/micro...ows.networking.
wireless/browse_thread/thread/686d574433eceafa#>

Well, hopefully they will move to the microsoft web forum, rather
than craping all over the regular Usenet newsgroups. You may
remember a few years back when AOL started offering Usenet access

[compton ~]$ sepdate
Today is Mon September 6117, 1993 (UTC)
[compton ~]$

unleashing the Endless September - and when they finally killed off
their own news servers and mailed all of their users telling them that
groups.google.com was the replacement. Some users (and even some
news servers) filter off posts with a 'googlegroups.com' string in
the Message-ID: header just because of that.

Old guy

[geo]

>On Mon, 31 May 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.internet.wireless, in article
><IdydnQzIa7eJXp7RnZ2dnUVZ8t2dnZ2d@bt.com>, Bob wrote:

>>I see that today is the final day for MS Newsgroups.

>>"Final Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community"
>><http://groups.google.com/group/micro...ows.networking.
> wireless/browse_thread/thread/686d574433eceafa#>

>Well, hopefully they will move to the microsoft web forum, rather
>than craping all over the regular Usenet newsgroups. You may
>remember a few years back when AOL started offering Usenet access

>[compton ~]$ sepdate
>Today is Mon September 6117, 1993 (UTC)
>[compton ~]$

>unleashing the Endless September - and when they finally killed off
>their own news servers and mailed all of their users telling them that
>groups.google.com was the replacement. Some users (and even some
>news servers) filter off posts with a 'googlegroups.com' string in
>the Message-ID: header just because of that.

> Old guy

The Endless September was a reference to college students and their new
found access to the internet. AOL managed to compound this disaster a few
years later.

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