Re: Our NG (somehow) is still hosted

R. C. White wrote:
> ?Hi, Carlos.
>
> I'm reading and posting here via my ISP (news.grandecom.net), as I've
> reported before.
>
> When I clicked the link in your post, nothing happened. So I
> copy'n'pasted it into 64-bit IE9 (beta). It took me to "Discussions
> in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition". Note two things about that:
> First, it's the "Discussions" web page, as you said, not NNTP.
> Second, it's the WinXP-specific group, not our late lamented
> "generic" 64-bit Windows NG. Yes, I know the URL includes the correct
> name of this NG, but the link takes me to the WinXP-specific page
> (amidst all the other WinXP-specific Discussion Groups).
>
> So far as I can see, this NEWSGROUP is no longer hosted by Microsoft
> in any way. And we never were able to convince The Powers That Be at
> Microsoft to create a FORUM for us to discuss 64-bit problems and
> issues that cross the lines between Windows versions - and even
> non-Windows OSes.
>
> So, until further developments, we must either continue to access
> THIS newsgroup via non-Microsoft news servers, or we migrate to
> Forums - and TRY to find one that can substitute for this 64-bit
> "community".

There are a lot of technical subjects that are missing from the forums.
There is very little on scripting and nothing on VBScript, specifically.
Fortunately, microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript and others are
carried on Usenet.
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