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New Microsoft Communities
A new place to play at Microsoft.
Do, please, pay the site a visit. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/ What do YOU think of it? Better than Usenet? -- “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” (Winston S. Churchill) |
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New Microsoft Communities
On 10/23/2017 8:01 AM, David B. wrote:
A new place to play at Microsoft. Do, please, pay the site a visit. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/ What do YOU think of it?* Better than Usenet? It has the same problems with all web forums, it is full of advertisements and it is difficult to scan to see what has been posted. With a web forum you must scroll through a half dozen or more post to see what has been posted. With usenet/newsgroups you can see 25 or more topic and look at only those of interest. If you set your newsreader to unread it you only see those post made since your last visit. There is no favorable comparison with Usenet. -- 2017: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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New Microsoft Communities
"Keith Nuttle" wrote
| With a web forum you must scroll through a half dozen or more post to | see what has been posted. With usenet/newsgroups you can see 25 or | more topic and look at only those of interest. If you set your | newsreader to unread it you only see those post made since your last visit. | | There is no favorable comparison with Usenet. The MS groups are also essentially advertisements. I haven't used the latest version, but the groups they started to replace their usenet groups are moderated. It's not discussion. It's advertising and free customer support provided by people who agree not to say anything bad about Microsoft and who want to climb in the hierarchy of MS experts. (As I recall one can earn up to 5 "medals" adorning one's posts. The old model involved Microsoft MVPs, who got perqs for helping out Windows users on Usenet. An MVP couldn't be *too* crtitical, but in those days MS were not trying to hard to actually block critical discussion. MVPs were not fans so much as real experts. |
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OT New Microsoft Communities - What Reader/Client
On 10/23/2017 08:55 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Keith Nuttle" wrote | With a web forum you must scroll through a half dozen or more post to | see what has been posted. With usenet/newsgroups you can see 25 or | more topic and look at only those of interest. If you set your | newsreader to unread it you only see those post made since your last visit. | | There is no favorable comparison with Usenet. The MS groups are also essentially advertisements. I haven't used the latest version, but the groups they started to replace their usenet groups are moderated. It's not discussion. It's advertising and free customer support provided by people who agree not to say anything bad about Microsoft and who want to climb in the hierarchy of MS experts. (As I recall one can earn up to 5 "medals" adorning one's posts. The old model involved Microsoft MVPs, who got perqs for helping out Windows users on Usenet. An MVP couldn't be *too* crtitical, but in those days MS were not trying to hard to actually block critical discussion. MVPs were not fans so much as real experts. What reader/client are you using? It has an odd behavior of using | instead of for quoted text. Just for my curiosity, not trying to ding anyone. |
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OT New Microsoft Communities - What Reader/Client
"Big Al" wrote
| What reader/client are you using? | It has an odd behavior of using | instead of for quoted text. I'm using OE6. But it's not the reader. I use pipes deliberately for clarity. I figure it would be easier to read multiple quotes if they happened like: # |# ]|# Something like that. Some others may not agree. I don't know. But I find it clearer to mix the symbols rather than just having piles of on the left side. Of course, good editing would be even better, but many people are in the habit of bottom-posting without ever editing, or doing inline posting without leaving spaces for clarity. Habits left over from the old days. They're not going to change. Do the pipes confound software that colorcodes for different posters? I've never used anything like that, so I'm not familiar with the design. |
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New Microsoft Communities
On 23/10/2017 8:29 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
It has the same problems with all web forums, it is full of advertisements and it is difficult to scan to see what has been posted. The same happened to newsgroups in Usenet's old days, unless you cached all messages. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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