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   Mr. Man-wai Chang to Carlos E.R.   
   Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups   
   04 Feb 23 22:40:04   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/2/2023 6:51 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >   
   > For a company doing user support a web forum seems to have advantages.   
   > They (as administrator) can remove posts, remove posters, edit posts   
   > (even of other people), have private messages... Ah, and add photos,   
   > which on Windows issues do help.   
      
   I don't remmeber M$ newsgroups in Usenet being spammed or abused. I   
   dunno whether they were moderated back then ...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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