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    where's the NNTP feed?

    WHY can't MS wake up, smell the coffee and recognise NNTP is useful?

    Please sync these forums with NNTP please?
    Thomas Lee - MVP
    Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:15 PM
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    Thank you for your feedback and comments! This suggestion you have reported will be investigated and passed on to the product team.

    Monday, February 25, 2008 3:18 PM
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    MS has been 'listening' to this plea for years, but delivering less and less.

    These forums are useful, in terms of content, but are very hard to use due to speed. I certainly can't answer anywhere near as many questions using these forums. They're slow and very hard to use.

    I accept Oblansky's points - but surely there's a simple way to gateway to NNTP. Actually, there is a way: community server manage it, as does the MCT newsgroups. The technology  is NOT new nor is it particulary hard.

    Please MS, fix this bug.
    Thomas Lee - MVP
    • Proposed as answer by Thomas Lee Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:23 PM
    • Marked as answer by Thomas Lee Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:23 PM
    • Marked as answer by Thomas Lee Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:24 PM
    Tuesday, June 3, 2008 10:19 AM
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    rfc 977 ... ah. yes, NNTP has some real merits. It does however have some issues with the forums model as many of the features in forums do not work in NNTP, locked/split/merged/edited, and this resulted in the mess of the old forums system sending endless 'this thread has been locked' posts.

    I think it would be much better to expose an end point and allow for users to add forums visibility into NNTP readers.

    as an example it seems to me to make more sense to use an add-in for OE, example, to view a newsgroup and through the add-in also view forums that the user thinks of as related to the newsgroup. the user can post or reply to the content and the add-in would handle syncing content to both sources.

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    Friday, February 22, 2008 4:38 AM
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    Monday, February 25, 2008 3:18 PM
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    Alicia Cales said:

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    Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:40 PM
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    MS has been 'listening' to this plea for years, but delivering less and less.

    These forums are useful, in terms of content, but are very hard to use due to speed. I certainly can't answer anywhere near as many questions using these forums. They're slow and very hard to use.

    I accept Oblansky's points - but surely there's a simple way to gateway to NNTP. Actually, there is a way: community server manage it, as does the MCT newsgroups. The technology  is NOT new nor is it particulary hard.

    Please MS, fix this bug.
    Thomas Lee - MVP
    • Proposed as answer by Thomas Lee Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:23 PM
    • Marked as answer by Thomas Lee Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:23 PM
    • Marked as answer by Thomas Lee Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:24 PM
    Tuesday, June 3, 2008 10:19 AM
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    Thank you for your feedback and comments! This suggestion you have reported will be investigated and passed on to the product team.


    Any news - it's been nearly 2 years....
    Thomas Lee - doctordns@gmail.com
    Monday, December 7, 2009 6:41 PM
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    The NNTP Bridge Forums beta has been out for months. The early releases had some limitations and bugs, it is currently still in development. There is a planned December update to the beta, people interested in using an NNTP reader with these forums should wait for the December update. You can find out more about it here: https://connect.microsoft.com/site927 
    Community Forums Program Manager
    Tuesday, December 8, 2009 5:59 AM
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    You obviously a) are not used to Newsgroups and b) haven't used this product.

    I used it twice using Forte Agent. 2nd time I used it, I lost all newsgroup subscriptions.

    WHY bother making something that works so badly - you already have a gateway that works. Why re-invent the wheel?
    Thomas Lee - doctordns@gmail.com
    Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:36 PM
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