Re: Proposal: An alternative to mailing lists which isn't a forum
On 10/10/2014 4:04 AM, Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:24:38 -0400
> Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Microsoft comes to mind - the run a couple of dozen newsgroups on
>> various support topics (http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/150057) -
>> just point your newsreader at their server.
>
> You may be out of date here, Microsoft announced about three years ago
> they were abandoning Usenet, and as far as I know, they have. The
> groups still exist, but they're empty now. I used to be active on the
> Small Business Server group, and that definitely died then, they have
> moved it all to a web forum system, with voting and point-scoring and
> much silliness, along with an altered interface every now and then.
>
They may be. I don't follow Microsoft newsgroups. I just know they
(used to) exist.
Jerry
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