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   Message 16,498 of 17,273   
   Frank Slootweg to Blake   
   Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups   
   20 Mar 23 18:07:25   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Blake  wrote:   
   > On 20 Mar 2023 16:49:10 GMT, Frank Slootweg    
   > 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.   
   > >   
   > >  It's also available on Windows XP, which is what Newyana2 (mainly)   
   > >uses. (BTW, why the new nym?)   
   >   
   > New nym? I've always been Ken Blake.   
      
     Not you, Mayayana. Why does he have a new nym?   
      
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