Bill in Co wrote:

Here on usenet, we're always open - 24 hours a day, 365 days a
year.

Unlike MSFN.org, which is still down.

And still down today.

If you want to know what MSFN is really for, just look at how
they use twitter. Or rather, how they don't use it.

They don't use twitter to tell people what's going on with
their website.

Instead, they use their tweets to shill Windoze 8 for Macro$haft.
Just have a look he

https://twitter.com/MSFNorg

You mean to tell me that MSFN has sold out?

When you look at how MSFN uses twitter, it's mainly to communicate new
things about Windoze 8. It's never been used to communicate something
more practical and seemingly more important to the entire MSFN user-base
- which is the status of their website.

And all those old Win95/98 articles and patches are now gone?

MSFN really never acted as a server for files - that's mainly done at
mdgx.com.

All their forum posts are (presumably) still there, except that the last
time MSFN went down (about 3 weeks ago) they lost the most recent 3 or 4
days worth of postings (to all forums).