XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 2/3/2023 10:03 PM, Char Jackson wrote:   
   > On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 15:18:04 -0000, Jim the Geordie    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> In article , Newyana2@invalid.nospam   
   >> says...   
   >>>   
   >>>   Suddenly neither E-S nor AIOE can find the MS newsgroups.   
   >>> I visit microsoft.* regular for VB, vbscript, and the most active   
   >>> XP group. Does anyone know the story here? Have they been   
   >>> discontinued? Threats from Microsoft or some such? Historicallt   
   >>> the MS groups have been among the best because they had   
   >>> a long history of use by MVPs and Windows professionals.   
   >>   
   >> They are still there on Paganini server   
   >   
   > Newsgroups don't disappear until the last Usenet server on the planet   
   > stops carrying them, which is something that hasn't happened in many   
   > decades, AFAIK.   
   >   
   > Individual servers may decide to stop carrying a specific newsgroup, or   
   > individual servers may have technical issues, but the rest of the Usenet   
   > infrastructure carries on.   
   >   
      
   There are hierarchies managed by the Big-8, and the rest.   
      
   I think I have one Big-8 group in my list, and I've never   
   posted to it.   
      
   Back when I was using a Macintosh, I had more interest   
   in some of the Big-8 groups for that purpose.   
      
   The creation rate of groups in Big-8 is just too slow   
   for the job. That does not mean the process is necessarily   
   bad as such, but the process is not well suited to the task.   
   You have to put up with a lot of personal abuse, while   
   that process grinds on. You really need a group badly,   
   to put the effort into that process.   
      
       Paul   
      
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