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Old March 5th 10, 10:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Leonard Grey[_3_]
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Funny that. I'm about to receive a new computer with Windows 7, so I've
been spending a lot of time in Microsoft's Windows 7 forums. Plenty of
solid information there, and I find no slowness at all vis-a-vis the
newsgroups.

What's missing are the free-for-all saloon fights that occasionally
break out in the newsgroups, but I can live with that.
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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:23:53 -0500, Leonard Grey
wrote:

This is all my opinion, so I hope everyone likes salt.

The experience of a moderated, owned web forum can be very different
from the experience of an essentially unmoderated public newsgroup.



True, but newsgroups can be moderated too. And I would have greatly
preferred that, even if the moderation were imperfect. Also note that
some newsgroups (for example, the Corel WordPerfect newsgroups) are
public, but not echoed to every news server in the world; doing that
non-echoing could have made the moderation near perfect, as it is on
the Corel WordPerfect newsgroups.


It seems that Microsoft has decided that peer-to-peer communication
should constitute a significant portion of its official support for
Windows 7. Therefore, they instituted moderated, controlled web forums.
The advantage is: You're more likely to find authoritative help. The
disadvantage is: Big Brother is watching.




From my perspective, there's another *much* bigger (at least to me)
disadvantage. It's much slower to participate in web-based forums
(even using the nntp bridge, which I do), than in newsgroups. I do
participate but because it takes me so much longer, my participation
is at a lower level.


Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:02:33 -0500, "sharkman"
wrote:

Are there any out there?

Unfortunately it's highly unlikely that there will be any Microsoft
Windows 7 newsgroups. Apparently Microsoft has decided that web-based
forums are better than newsgroups and they are putting their efforts
there. I'm personally sorry that's the case, but it's their decision,
not mine.

However there is at least one non-Microsoft Windows 7 newsgroup:
alt.windows7.general. Not all servers carry it (at least not yet), but
here's one free news server that does: aioe.org



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