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Old March 6th 21, 03:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
JJ[_14_]
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Default Has anyone used MS official forum's NNTP bridge?

On Sat, 06 Mar 2021 09:26:58 +1300, Ralph Fox wrote:

The Microsoft news server was shut down many years ago, but that is not
relevant to the NNTP bridge.

The NNTP bridge does not use the Microsoft news server.


Ack, you're right. I forgot that Microsoft newsgroups don't require
Microsoft's news server. And I forgot where I'm posting to... duh!

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So, the NNTP bridge is just an NNTP-to-HTTP proxy specifically for the web
forum?

I thought it was a web forum plugin which exposes Microsoft newsgroups from
the web forum. i.e. to make the web forum also act as a web based NNTP
client for Microsoft newsgroups.
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