XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: Ken@invalid.news.com   
      
   On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:41:26 -0800, "Bill Bradshaw"    
   wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> 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?   
   >>   
   >   
   >I see all kinds of the microsoft.public.??? on news.individual.net.   
      
      
   So do I. I must have mistyped Microsoft  when I did a search on it   
   before posting. Sorry, and thanks.   
      
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