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   Mr. Man-wai Chang to Andy Burns   
   Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups   
   04 Feb 23 22:42:17   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/2/2023 6:55 pm, Andy Burns wrote:   
   >   
   > Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:   
   >   
   >> It's sad to see newsgroups gone from Micro$oft's radar.   
   >   
   > You speak as though that happened recently, rather than nearly 13 years ago?   
      
   My main interest was always Visual Foxpro. Maybe I missed things in   
   other M$ newsgroups.   
      
   (Lately, Foxpro Wikis was offline due to some arguments between famous   
   people.)   
      
   >> Micro$oft could have sync between Micro$oft Community and Usenet.   
   >   
   > Actually, MS did implement a forums to NNTP bridge, I never used it so   
   > have no idea how kludgy it was, but I can imagine ...   
   >   
   >    
      
   You reminded me of this! Thanks.   
      
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