Update - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

Microsoft is posting a new message (with the Subject as I used here) and
basically they're defining a timeline for group removal and their server
shutdown.

In the groups where they are posting this message to, they are saying
this:

-----------
Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown?
All public newsgroups will eventually be closed between June 1, 2010 and
October 1, 2010. Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased
approach,
starting with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more
active ones throughout the course of the next six months.

When will this Happen?
Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.
------------

I happened to see this in microsoft.public.win98.performance.

Microsoft is also saying this:

------------
In addition to offering a compelling online browser experience, for
those
users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP
Bridge
which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to
the
forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP
reader
functionality.
------------

So it's bizarre why they are closing down their usenet server (which is
linked into their current web-forum interface) simply to create a new
web-based forum interface AND create an NNTP connection to the new
forums.

What Microsoft is doing here is clear. It's no so much that they want
to re-engineer or re-invent their "communities" support structure, they
simply want to divorce themselves from the world-wide usenet
communications system, while still providing NNTP interface to what-ever
comes next.

This is to control the content of the material posted to the new forums,
because under the current arrangement they clearly don't or can't
control what gets posted to these groups via external servers.

On 05/08/2010 12:57 PM, 98 Guy wrote:
Microsoft is posting a new message (with the Subject as I used here) and
basically they're defining a timeline for group removal and their server
shutdown.

In the groups where they are posting this message to, they are saying
this:

-----------
Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown?
All public newsgroups will eventually be closed between June 1, 2010 and
October 1, 2010. Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased
approach,
starting with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more
active ones throughout the course of the next six months.

When will this Happen?
Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.
------------

I happened to see this in microsoft.public.win98.performance.

Microsoft is also saying this:

------------
In addition to offering a compelling online browser experience, for
those
users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP
Bridge
which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to
the
forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP
reader
functionality.
------------


NOTE:
This posted material is NOT presently posted via *Microsoft's official
channels* here and is NOT *at this time* applicable to this particular
win98.gen_discussion group.
Users should be prepared to receive the/any message relevant to this
particular group at any time and at Microsoft's pleasure via its
official channels and/or methods.

Per this post brought here from another:

Apparently Microsoft has now determined and created a method of access
for forum subjects it intends to offer within its online forums, users
of THIS particular win98.gen_discussion group and other groups
generally, should take specific note of further *official* Notice FROM
Microsoft official channels WITHIN those *specific* groups, of any
offered and/or provided access methods within such Notices and within
and *specific* to those individual groups. Posting or discussing
materials relating to any one group subject is not necessarily relevant
to others.

As of very early this morning, I personally found no forums which had
relevance to Windows 98, though that may change at any time should
Microsoft create and offer them.

--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
Windows Info, Diagnostics, Security, Networking
http://peoplescounsel.org
The "real world" of Law, Justice, and Government
___---

On 05/08/2010 12:57 PM, 98 Guy wrote:
Microsoft is posting a new message (with the Subject as I used here) and
basically they're defining a timeline for group removal and their server
shutdown.

In the groups where they are posting this message to, they are saying
this:

-----------
Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown?
All public newsgroups will eventually be closed between June 1, 2010 and
October 1, 2010. Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased
approach,
starting with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more
active ones throughout the course of the next six months.

When will this Happen?
Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.
------------

I happened to see this in microsoft.public.win98.performance.

Microsoft is also saying this:

------------
In addition to offering a compelling online browser experience, for
those
users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP
Bridge
which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to
the
forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP
reader
functionality.
------------


NOTE:
This posted material is NOT presently posted via *Microsoft's official
channels* here and is NOT *at this time* applicable to this particular
win98.gen_discussion group.
Users should be prepared to receive the/any message relevant to this
particular group at any time and at Microsoft's pleasure via its
official channels and/or methods.

Per this post brought here from another:

Apparently Microsoft has now determined and created a method of access
for forum subjects it intends to offer within its online forums, users
of THIS particular win98.gen_discussion group and other groups
generally, should take specific note of further *official* Notice FROM
Microsoft official channels WITHIN those *specific* groups, of any
offered and/or provided access methods within such Notices and within
and *specific* to those individual groups. Posting or discussing
materials relating to any one group subject is not necessarily relevant
to others.

As of very early this morning, I personally found no forums which had
relevance to Windows 98, though that may change at any time should
Microsoft create and offer them.

--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
Windows Info, Diagnostics, Security, Networking
http://peoplescounsel.org
The "real world" of Law, Justice, and Government
___---

BINGO

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Microsoft is posting a new message (with the Subject as I used here) and
basically they're defining a timeline for group removal and their server
shutdown.

In the groups where they are posting this message to, they are saying
this:

-----------
Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown?
All public newsgroups will eventually be closed between June 1, 2010 and
October 1, 2010. Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased
approach,
starting with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more
active ones throughout the course of the next six months.

When will this Happen?
Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.
------------

I happened to see this in microsoft.public.win98.performance.

Microsoft is also saying this:

------------
In addition to offering a compelling online browser experience, for
those
users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP
Bridge
which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to
the
forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP
reader
functionality.
------------

So it's bizarre why they are closing down their usenet server (which is
linked into their current web-forum interface) simply to create a new
web-based forum interface AND create an NNTP connection to the new
forums.

What Microsoft is doing here is clear. It's no so much that they want
to re-engineer or re-invent their "communities" support structure, they
simply want to divorce themselves from the world-wide usenet
communications system, while still providing NNTP interface to what-ever
comes next.

This is to control the content of the material posted to the new forums,
because under the current arrangement they clearly don't or can't
control what gets posted to these groups via external servers.

BINGO

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
Microsoft is posting a new message (with the Subject as I used here) and
basically they're defining a timeline for group removal and their server
shutdown.

In the groups where they are posting this message to, they are saying
this:

-----------
Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown?
All public newsgroups will eventually be closed between June 1, 2010 and
October 1, 2010. Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased
approach,
starting with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more
active ones throughout the course of the next six months.

When will this Happen?
Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed.
------------

I happened to see this in microsoft.public.win98.performance.

Microsoft is also saying this:

------------
In addition to offering a compelling online browser experience, for
those
users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP
Bridge
which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to
the
forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP
reader
functionality.
------------

So it's bizarre why they are closing down their usenet server (which is
linked into their current web-forum interface) simply to create a new
web-based forum interface AND create an NNTP connection to the new
forums.

What Microsoft is doing here is clear. It's no so much that they want
to re-engineer or re-invent their "communities" support structure, they
simply want to divorce themselves from the world-wide usenet
communications system, while still providing NNTP interface to what-ever
comes next.

This is to control the content of the material posted to the new forums,
because under the current arrangement they clearly don't or can't
control what gets posted to these groups via external servers.

"Hot-text" wrote in message
...
BINGO

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
So it's bizarre why they are closing down their usenet server (which is
linked into their current web-forum interface) simply to create a new
web-based forum interface AND create an NNTP connection to the new
forums.

Yep, shows Microsoft's reasons for taking their servers out is bull****.