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    From Newyana2@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 2 08:37:25 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general

    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.

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 2 15:43:40 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general

    Thanks to you both. It sounds like maybe AIOE will eventually
    bring them back. It's a shame with E-S. As you noted, David, there
    are alternatives, but the MS groups were the only ones being
    used. The VB6 group has actually been fairly active recently.

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  • From John Hall@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 3 14:35:00 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general

    In message <trj4be$1ffi2$[email protected]>, Newyana2
    <[email protected]> writes
    Individual.net looks like an option, but it costs me more than $30
    to make a bank transfer

    Good grief! That's daylight robbery.
    --
    John Hall "Do you have cornflakes in America?"
    "Well, actually, they're American."
    "So what brings you to Britain then if you have cornflakes already?"
    Bill Bryson: "Notes from a Small Island"

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Paul on Fri Feb 3 22:57:33 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

    "Paul" <[email protected]d> wrote

    | Switch to news.mixmin.net:563 . Does not appear
    | to support port 119.
    |
    | news.mixmin.net/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
    |

    That seems to work, but it looks like only about half
    the posts are there. ?

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Paul on Sat Feb 4 10:58:37 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general

    Paul wrote:

    I think I have one Big-8 group in my list, and I've never
    posted to it.

    Similar, my groups are mostly uk.* and alt.*
    with just three comp.* groups

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  • From Ken Blake@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 4 07:36:19 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general

    On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 10:58:37 +0000, Andy Burns <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Paul wrote:

    I think I have one Big-8 group in my list, and I've never
    posted to it.

    Similar, my groups are mostly uk.* and alt.*
    with just three comp.* groups

    As a matter to interest to anyone who cares, I have two rec* groups
    and the other nine are all alt*.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Bill Bradshaw on Mon Mar 20 17:08:59 2023
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general

    Bill Bradshaw wrote:

    I see all kinds of the microsoft.public.??? on news.individual.net.

    But how many are getting new messages?

    If anyone can recommend a good group for MSMQ I'd welcome it.

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