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OT: promoting this newsgroup as MS shuts down theirs
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Re: OT: promoting this newsgroup as MS shuts down theirs -
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In the microsoft.public.access.* groups, Microsoft has announced their intention to shut those groups down and move to a web based system. Example announcement: Group: microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba Subject: Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities For those of us who prefer Usenet, it makes sense for us to make people aware of this group, in the hope that it experiences a renewal of interest as the MS ones disappear. |
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On Sat, 8 May 2010 18:06:46 +0800, "Allen Browne" AllenBrowne (AT) SeeSig (DOT) invalid> wrote: Hi Allen, Would you be willing to add a page to your site about this topic? I would not hesitate putting that link in my Sig. -Tom. Microsoft Access MVP In the microsoft.public.access.* groups, Microsoft has announced their intention to shut those groups down and move to a web based system. Example announcement: Group: microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba Subject: Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities For those of us who prefer Usenet, it makes sense for us to make people aware of this group, in the hope that it experiences a renewal of interest as the MS ones disappear. |
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In the microsoft.public.access.* groups, Microsoft has announced their intention to shut those groups down and move to a web based system. Example announcement: Group: microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba Subject: Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities For those of us who prefer Usenet, it makes sense for us to make people aware of this group, in the hope that it experiences a renewal of interest as the MS ones disappear. |
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"Salad" <salad (AT) oilandvinegar (DOT) com> wrote in message I couldn't agree more Allen. What's the best way to go about that, do you think? [snip] I think it's mostly about spam control and MS "owning the app". They want rid of 3rd party readers. This guy obviously agrees: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05..._kills_groups/ |
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No doubt spam is an issue, but I'm not convinced it's primarily about that. It may be more about tracking clients and mining that information, particularly as the cloud overtakes the desktop. |
as backups and none of the microsoft.public groups have any
significant amount of spam in them at all. Spam is entirely a red
herring.
MS wants control and they don't have that in Usenet groups.
This means they can shut out people like Michael Kaplan and me who
are willing to criticize Microsoft and its products, just like I was
banned from UtterAccess for posting a mildly strong criticism of
someone's wrong recommendations.
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David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
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This means they can shut out people like Michael Kaplan and me who are willing to criticize Microsoft and its products, just like I was banned from UtterAccess for posting a mildly strong criticism of someone's wrong recommendations. |
spam as they find it, and those posts which are abusive. That's it.
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"David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet (AT) dfenton (DOT) com.invalid> wrote in message news:Xns9D73901DE2613f99a49ed1d0c49c5bbb2 (AT) 74 (DOT) 209.136.100... This means they can shut out people like Michael Kaplan and me who are willing to criticize Microsoft and its products, just like I was banned from UtterAccess for posting a mildly strong criticism of someone's wrong recommendations. AFAIK, they have never shut our anyone for criticizing them. They delete spam as they find it, and those posts which are abusive. That's it. |
recally couldn't except on their own servers, which still wouldn't
keep the posts by the banned from getting through to their servers.
The new system would enable something they were unable to do on the
old.
I'm not saying MS *will* do that, only that this is one thing that
closed systems enable.
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In the microsoft.public.access.* groups, Microsoft has announced their intention to shut those groups down and move to a web based system. Example announcement: Group: microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba Subject: Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities For those of us who prefer Usenet, it makes sense for us to make people aware of this group, in the hope that it experiences a renewal of interest as the MS ones disappear. -- Allen Browne - Perth, Western Australia Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org. |
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How about adding a SIG line to our posts in microsoft.public.access... newsgroups (in whatever time is left for them): "Access newsgroup support will live on in USENET at comp.databases.ms-access!" Larry Linson "Allen Browne" <AllenBrowne (AT) SeeSig (DOT) invalid> wrote in message news:cq-dnSitsZEoqnjWnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d (AT) westnet (DOT) com.au... In the microsoft.public.access.* groups, Microsoft has announced their intention to shut those groups down and move to a web based system. Example announcement: Group: microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba Subject: Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities For those of us who prefer Usenet, it makes sense for us to make people aware of this group, in the hope that it experiences a renewal of interest as the MS ones disappear. -- Allen Browne - Perth, Western Australia Tips for Access users - http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org. |
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