Is this group active ?

:-)

Since you see little or no activity, what do YOU think?
MS is dropping their nntp newsgroups, and people have been migrating to the
web forums. Thus, no matter what you use to access them, they still aren't
gonna have any traffic to speak of.

"Kim" wrote in message
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Kim wrote:

:-)

How do YOU measure "active"?

By volume? Well, obviously there isn't much volume here but then I
didn't measure it before Microsoft decided to abandon their 4-year
experiment to usurp Usenet. It didn't have much volume before when
Microsoft did host this newsgroup on their own NNTP server gatewayed to
their "Communities" webnews-for-dummies interface.

By response time? Well, you've now gotten 2 responses today so the
group is still being monitored by those who prefer Usenet over
Microsoft's inane web-based forums.

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:50:47 +0100, just as I was about to take a
herb, "Kim" disturbed my reverie and wrote:

:-)


Yes and no, depending...

Kim wrote:
:-)

All I know is that I posted a fairly complex question here three days
ago, and got a detailed answer less than an hour later.

That's active enough for my liking. 80)

--
John Corliss