Ralph Fox wrote:
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.
I thought the NNTP bridge died several years ago. I recall trying it
for a very short time -- because it was VERY flaky.
https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=communitybridge
Users are to download the NNTP bridge after 2021-JUL-1 from:
https://github.com/JochenKalmbach/communitybridge
Well, obviously Jochen Kalmbach decided to take up the codebase, because
Microsoft decided to drop that NNTP access method. 3 years ago the
project stalled. However, Kalmbach's code is a clone and has a
datestamp of 5 years ago, so the NNTP bridge stalled that long ago. He
grabbed the stale code before it disappears from CodePlex. Microsoft is
not supporting it, and hasn't supported for many years.
Considering how flaky it was several years ago when it was supported,
but has been stale for several years, I wouldn't bother with it. Did
they ever fix the Message-ID or References header problems? Does their
web-based forum even bother to insert a References header to allow NNTP
client to view hierarchy? Just use a web browser to their web forums
instead of trying to interface your NNTP client to their forums.