XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Ken Blake  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
     It's also available on Windows XP, which is what Newyana2 (mainly)   
   uses. (BTW, why the new nym?)   
      
   > >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?   
      
     Several such servers were mentioned in this (long) thread, but why not   
   just look on 'your' server!? :-)   
      
   > >  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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