XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: Ken@invalid.news.com   
      
   On 20 Mar 2023 15:18:29 GMT, Frank Slootweg    
   wrote:   
      
   >[Late response due to extended absence.]   
   >   
   >Newyana2  wrote:   
   >>  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.   
   >   
   >  I'm not sure, but I think that Outlook Express can have multiple news   
   >servers/accounts.   
      
      
   I think so too. In fact I think all (almost all?) newsreaders can   
      
   Is he running Outlook Express? The last version of Windows to include   
   it  was Windows 98.   
      
      
   >If so, you can get the microsoft.public.* groups from   
   >some other server(s) and the rest of your groups from E-S.   
      
      
   I haven't seen a Microsoft  newsgroup in years. Do you know any news   
   servers that still carry any?   
      
      
   >  As Char Jackson said "Newsgroups don't disappear until the last Usenet   
   >server on the planet stops carrying them", so that Microsoft shut them   
   >down - over a decade ago - didn't make them disappear and that E-S does   
   >no longer carry them, will not make them disappear either.   
      
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