On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 13:28:37 +0800, Lu Wei wrote:

Someone posted about the project:
https://github.com/JochenKalmbach/communitybridge3
I wonder if the "official" forum is still friendly to newsgroup posters.
And is it possible that MS delete microsoft.* hierarchy in Usenet, at
least in backbone servers?


I used the Community Bridge 3 a few years ago, for a little while.

The "official" forum itself knows nothing at all about newsgroups and
newsgroup posters. Microsoft shut down its news server many years ago.

The NNTP bridge is a program you run locally on your own computer and
which tries to emulate a local news server. The NNTP bridge communicates
with the "official" forums using a REST web service.

The REST web service is very different to NNTP, and therefore the
news server emulation does not behave quite like a real news server.
You will have to accept some compromises.

You can still find microsoft.* hierarchy newsgroups on many Usenet
servers, but Microsoft abandoned those newsgroups many years ago.


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