From: "Noel Paton"

| Unfortunately, it's been all too obviously the way things were going for the
| past few years. MS have spent large sums of money on the pretty forums, and
| almost nothing on NNTP - and then in Win7 took away the means for anyone to
| access NG's without a third-party program (or a complex hack to install Win
| Mail on Win7), by not including an email/NNTP client.
| As soon as that decision had been taken, the fate of the NG's was obvious,
| and imminent.
| From what I understand, low-volume NG's will be the first to go - and most
| of ME's groups are effectively zero-volume.
| We can expect to see close-down notices in all the ME groups except possibly
| this one, by the first week of June, and this one shortly after - my
| understanding is that they want to close the servers before the end of the
| year (but whether it's the MS year, the Financial year, or the Calendar
| year, I have no idea).

| RIP easy-access assistance!

| NNTP is dead - long live Forums (or is it Fora?), where control is the name
| of the game, and if you speak out of turn, look out!


Adobe killed is Usenet.

US ISPs dropped Usenet.

Google Groups has ALLOWED abuse and spam and they are killing Usenet.

Slowly but surely, Usenet as we know, it is be dismantled and killed-off :-(



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Dave
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