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Re: Windows 7 NG?

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Bruce Hagen

Flightless Bird
"(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> wrote in message
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> I'm looking, but cannot find an NG for Windows 7.
>
> Gotta be one, right?
>
> But where?
> --
> PeteCresswell




alt.windows7.general

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Communities
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

Newsgroups removed as of June 1, 2010
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2010/06/05/closin-the-nntp.aspx

You can still access the groups on some non-MS servers such as Eternal
September, but how long the quality of questions and replies lasts is
unknown.

Eternal September
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/eternal-september.html

The replacement forums.

Microsoft Answers - First Time Users
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA
 
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RJK

Flightless Bird
"Bruce Hagen" <BRH@nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:i31ngs$t16$1@news.eternal-september.org...

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> wrote in message
news:grk856lr98dbogv8205c7e5b66ipg72b31@4ax.com...
> I'm looking, but cannot find an NG for Windows 7.
>
> Gotta be one, right?
>
> But where?
> --
> PeteCresswell




alt.windows7.general

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Communities
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

Newsgroups removed as of June 1, 2010
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2010/06/05/closin-the-nntp.aspx

You can still access the groups on some non-MS servers such as Eternal
September, but how long the quality of questions and replies lasts is
unknown.

Eternal September
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/eternal-september.html

The replacement forums.

Microsoft Answers - First Time Users
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


He might like to install the MS / Connect NNTP bridges for the Forums, and Answers.
I did, so that I can continue to use OE6, and whilst the quality of most of the questions is, as usual, awful,
there are answers to be found in there !

regards, Richard
 
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Jean Rosenfeld

Flightless Bird
A better bridge is Community forums bridge:

http://communitybridge.codeplex.com/
"RJK" <nosuch@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:JNZ4o.33483$OU6.4972@newsfe20.iad...

"Bruce Hagen" <BRH@nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:i31ngs$t16$1@news.eternal-september.org...

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> wrote in message
news:grk856lr98dbogv8205c7e5b66ipg72b31@4ax.com...
> I'm looking, but cannot find an NG for Windows 7.
>
> Gotta be one, right?
>
> But where?
> --
> PeteCresswell




alt.windows7.general

Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Communities
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

Newsgroups removed as of June 1, 2010
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2010/06/05/closin-the-nntp.aspx

You can still access the groups on some non-MS servers such as Eternal
September, but how long the quality of questions and replies lasts is
unknown.

Eternal September
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/eternal-september.html

The replacement forums.

Microsoft Answers - First Time Users
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


He might like to install the MS / Connect NNTP bridges for the Forums, and Answers.
I did, so that I can continue to use OE6, and whilst the quality of most of the questions is, as usual, awful,
there are answers to be found in there !

regards, Richard
 
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Bruce Hagen

Flightless Bird

>"Jean Rosenfeld" <jean.rosenfeld@nospam.ukgateway.net> wrote in message
> >news:i31q8a$2vug$1@adenine.netfront.net...

>A better bridge is Community forums bridge:




+1.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA









He might like to install the MS / Connect NNTP bridges for the Forums,
and Answers.
I did, so that I can continue to use OE6, and whilst the quality of most
of the questions is, as usual, awful,
there are answers to be found in there !

regards, Richard
 
R

RJK

Flightless Bird
"Bruce Hagen" <BRH@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:i31qns$ncc$1@news.eternal-september.org...

>"Jean Rosenfeld" <jean.rosenfeld@nospam.ukgateway.net> wrote in message
> >news:i31q8a$2vug$1@adenine.netfront.net...

>A better bridge is Community forums bridge:




+1.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


I "glanced" at the "Community Forums" web site, before fighting with the
Connect nntp bridges, (perhanced I should have glance harder and longer !),
and thought it looked even more complicated than the "Connect" ones, ... who
failed to mention anywhere, (well, I couldn't see it anywhere), that I had
to make a News account in OE with local machine 127.0.0.1 server address, or
it wouldn't work, ...then I noticed that it wouldn't work because the
Answers Forum needed changing to port 120
....and of course, had to wade through all that MS "Live" stuff as well :-(

regards, Richard
 
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SC Tom

Flightless Bird
"RJK" <nosuch@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Bruce Hagen" <BRH@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i31qns$ncc$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
>>"Jean Rosenfeld" <jean.rosenfeld@nospam.ukgateway.net> wrote in message
>> >news:i31q8a$2vug$1@adenine.netfront.net...

>>A better bridge is Community forums bridge:

>
>
>
> +1.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP [Mail]
> Imperial Beach, CA
>
>
> I "glanced" at the "Community Forums" web site, before fighting with the
> Connect nntp bridges, (perhanced I should have glance harder and longer
> !), and thought it looked even more complicated than the "Connect" ones,
> ... who failed to mention anywhere, (well, I couldn't see it anywhere),
> that I had to make a News account in OE with local machine 127.0.0.1
> server address, or it wouldn't work, ...then I noticed that it wouldn't
> work because the Answers Forum needed changing to port 120
> ...and of course, had to wade through all that MS "Live" stuff as well :-(
>
> regards, Richard
>

The Community forums bridge uses port 119 for all of the forums, Answers,
TechNet, etc. (2,284 forums in various languages). I much prefer using it to
access all of them than use the separate bridges.
--
SC Tom
 
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