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| From | Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.os.windows-xp |
| Subject | Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups |
| Date | 2023-02-03 14:42 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <trj316$1f81o$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <trgeb1$tcg3$1@dont-email.me> <trgli5$unic$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
Op 2-2-2023 om 16:40 schreef Paul: > On 2/2/2023 8:37 AM, 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. >> >> > > This is the status of Eternal September. > > http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Cm2v8kkbbds.fsf%40raybanana.net%3E > > > "Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 11:38:23 +0100 > > More than 11 years after Microsoft closed down their news server > and the > microsoft support groups, and in the light of the current influx of > spam > from Google to the microsft.* groups, this hierarchy has now been > removed from Eternal-September. > " > > ******* > > AIOE had a RAID failure a week ago (not a "degrade", a complete > and utter "fail"). > > It will be a number of weeks, to bring it up from scratch. > Reinstall INN. Redo all the peering, and so on. > > At the current time, the rental machine in the COLO, answers > a ping on just one address, and that is about the level of > support you get in a COLO. When local DNS is re-added to the machine, > then the multiple machine names will work again. > > Paul Which is a pity, especially for microsoft.public.windowsxp.general , which is the busiest English language newsgroup for Windows XP, as Newyana2 already wrote. You can still read the microsoft.* hierarchy on the newsservers: - paganini.bofh.team - freenews.netfront.net Both are free newsservers. If you can post, I don't know, because I do not follow microsoft.* groups anymore. Rink
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OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Newyana2" <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> - 2023-02-02 08:37 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-02-02 10:40 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> - 2023-02-03 14:42 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-03 15:01 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2023-02-04 15:17 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2023-02-04 15:19 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Newyana2" <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> - 2023-02-03 09:05 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> - 2023-02-03 14:35 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2023-02-03 19:52 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-03 15:38 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Newyana2" <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> - 2023-02-03 13:17 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2023-02-03 19:53 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-03 20:56 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-02-03 11:31 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> - 2023-02-04 23:32 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-02-04 23:20 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2023-02-03 19:35 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> - 2023-02-03 18:51 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2023-02-02 23:45 +0800
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2023-02-03 19:55 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2023-02-03 16:27 -0700
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2023-02-04 11:21 +0800
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2023-02-04 10:55 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2023-02-04 22:42 +0800
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-04 11:51 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2023-02-04 22:40 +0800
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-02-04 18:27 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2023-02-04 07:32 -0700
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2023-02-02 09:17 -0800
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Newyana2" <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> - 2023-02-02 15:43 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2023-02-03 19:57 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2023-02-03 15:18 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2023-02-03 19:58 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2023-02-03 21:03 -0600
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-02-04 01:09 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2023-02-04 10:58 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2023-02-04 07:36 -0700
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Newyana2" <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> - 2023-02-05 08:40 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-02-02 09:49 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Newyana2" <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> - 2023-02-03 22:57 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-02-04 00:58 -0500
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2023-03-20 15:18 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2023-03-20 08:48 -0700
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw@gci.net> - 2023-03-20 08:41 -0800
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2023-03-20 17:08 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2023-03-20 10:09 -0700
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2023-03-20 16:49 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2023-03-20 10:18 -0700
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2023-03-20 18:07 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2023-03-20 12:47 -0700
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups James Tayler <james.tayler@hotmail.com> - 2023-03-20 21:32 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-03-21 02:46 -0400
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2023-03-20 13:22 -0400
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2023-03-20 10:50 -0700
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Jim the Geordie <jim@jimXscott.co.uk> - 2023-03-20 19:33 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-20 23:48 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2023-03-21 13:33 +0000
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-21 21:41 +0100
Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-03-21 08:36 +0100
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Re: OT - Microsoft newsgroups Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2023-03-21 08:01 -0700
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