The groups removed from msnews.microsoft.com still exist on other news
servers.
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Dave N.
MS-MVP (Mail)
Windows 7 Ultimate
http://download.live.com/wlmail
"Jon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> The first Stalinist-style newsgroup purge of 2010 would appear to have
> left the .General Windows newsgroups (Vista.general Xp.General etc)
> standing.
>
> This constitutes a purging of the small 'village' newsgroups, a herding
> the masses into the larger 'city' groups, before the final mass
> extermination to come (sometime before October); a temporary Darwinian
> survival of the fittest before the final purge.
>
> The future is then a corporate-controlled 'forum', highly censored, with
> free speech a thing of the past. A descent into the dark ages of corporate
> fascism.
>
> Is there still time to persuade the hand of the mighty software giant to
> recant and permit these surviving groups to continue, or has it already
> fully sold its soul to its puppet masters??
>
>
>
> --
> Jon
>
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