Removing access from AOL users and Internet newbies only improves it for
the rest of us.

Haha... good point.

Even if MS decides to close the server, these newsgroups have been
propagated too far and wide to just die, as long as they're being used.

Agreed.

Addiointially, even if MS does not "support" newsgroups, I'm sure there will
be plently of Windows 7 newsgroups (and others) coming along. It was not a
particulary special advantage to having a MS rep {{occasionally}} drop in.

-Frank