XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   [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. If so, you can get the microsoft.public.* groups from   
   some other server(s) and the rest of your groups from E-S.   
      
     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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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