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Microsoft duplicates web-based Communities such as:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx
so that they also appear on Usenet newsgroup servers under:
news.microsoft.com
If that were feasible, it gives the best outcome:
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Users discover web forums more easily than Usenet;
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Seasoned
contributors have the power of their preferred newsreader
(search, flagging, filtering, sorting, …) to provide support for those
who want help.
I can’t comment on how difficult it would be to set this up,
but it works well.
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Allen Browne said:
If that were feasible, it gives the best outcome:
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Users discover web forums more easily than Usenet;-
Seasoned
contributors have the power of their preferred newsreader
(search, flagging, filtering, sorting, …) to provide support for those
who want help.If I recall, Bob said that their original goal was to have something like this, but were unable to make it work, so they went ahead and deployed the web forums as is. I don't think I have seen anything else on this in recent weeks, so whether or not this concept has been abandoned completely or not nothing has been said.
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Allen Browne said:
Microsoft duplicates web-based Communities such as:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/FlyoutOverview.mspx
so that they also appear on Usenet newsgroup servers under:
news.microsoft.com
If it looks like http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups then NO thanks!
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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The big difficulty would be with user accounts. Posting messages to each forum would not be that big a deal. Tying it to a user account would be a bigger issue.
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