Nothing changes. Still stealing my money, another $0.15 and an hour of MY COMPUTER not working.

"David Candy" wrote in message
...
My name is not Davis. Two questions.

1. Is this the official notice that MS is discontinuing the service?

2. And are the servers working the same as, say, 2 weeks ago with the
traditional access to past messages.


David,

My apologies for the typo on you name in my previous reply.

1. No the newsgroups are not being withdrawn.

2. We are experiencing some problems at this time with our news servers
which are working to rectify.

I will not comment on the rest of your post. As I have not been involved in
it and I have no knowledge of the obviously complex and long running issues
you are having.

--
Regards,

Mike
--
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rights

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"David Candy" wrote in message
...
My name is not Davis. Two questions.

1. Is this the official notice that MS is discontinuing the service?

2. And are the servers working the same as, say, 2 weeks ago with the
traditional access to past messages.

And a point. An apology 2 years and two months ago could have saved a lot
of
nastiness, including MS's nastiness to me two nights ago.

Two months prior to MS wronging of me (well it was actually happening at
this time, I kept my temper for another two months) I finally got annoyed
at
someone for posting a few thousand messages into the
microsoft.public.windowsme.* groups.

This is the most shamefull thing I ever did, I choose to swear now rather
that ever be this nasty again in my life. This is me humilating someone
while pretending to be rational and caring.

The people posting 1000s of messages were from the alt.windows-me group,
so
I took the flame into their group rather than ours. Read it.

http://www.google.com.au/groups?hl=e...TF-8&safe=off&

threadm=3b32fa9c_3%40news01.one.net.au&rnum=1&prev =/groups%3Fnum%3D100%26hl%

3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26q%3DCary%2Bgrou

p%253Aalt.windows-me%2Bauthor%253Adavidc%40sia.net.au%26btnG%3DGoogl e%2BSear
ch

PS I have never sworn in ME or 98 or 3.1 or Dos groups. At the time this
happened I hadn't in any of the beta XP groups either. I had been here for
5
years when this happened.

MS insistance on manipulating me through my friends by sending nod, nod,
wink, wink messages and refusal to protect me from the S3 Graphics
corporation stalking me is what our dispute is over. Not to mention
breaking
a program I had just spent 8 months working on in XP. As to # 2, all I
wanted was an apology. All I got was ignored, at least till you tried to
have me committed to a psych hospital 3 nights ago.
"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" wrote in message
...
Davis,

You have not "paid for this service" - it is a peer to peer support
community.
Even if you did pay for it - under the terms of the EULA that you
quoted,
you missed off the end of that section of the EULA.
The full section is copied below.
8. ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE/SERVICES. This EULA
applies to updates, supplements, add-on components,
or Internet-based services components, of the Software
that Microsoft may provide to you or make available to you
after the date you obtain your initial copy of the
Software, unless we provide other terms along with the
update, supplement, add-on component, or Internet-based
services component. Microsoft reserves the right to
discontinue any Internet-based services provided to you or
made available to you through the use of the Software.

Notice the important point - "... Microsoft reserves the right to
discontinue any Internet-based services provided to you or
made available to you through the use of the Software. ..."
Of course this is not relevant since this is not a "paid" for "service".

--
Regards,

Mike
--
Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights

Please note I cannot respond to e-mailed questions, please use these
newsgroups

"David Candy" wrote in message
...
You feel free to go whenever you want too. Least I give accurate
answers
unlike you and your work mates.

PS I have paid for this service. This is not free but part of my
license
with Microsoft. From the retail EULA
This EULA
applies to updates, supplements, add-on components,
or Internet-based services components, of the Product that
Microsoft may provide to you or make available to you after
the date you obtain your initial copy of the Product,
unless we provide other terms along with the update,
supplement, add-on component, or Internet-based services
component.
"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" wrote in
message
...
David,

Since you are not forced to visit a site and if there are problems
you
may
leave and return later - no one is stealing anything from you.
You choose to visit the location that due to issues had performance
and
operational problems. You are free to not wait there or to not
return
for
a
period of time.

--
Regards,

Mike
--
Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights

Please note I cannot respond to e-mailed questions, please use these
newsgroups

"David Candy" wrote in message
...

Mike,

Well said.


"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" wrote in message
...
"David Candy" wrote in message
...
My name is not Davis. Two questions.

1. Is this the official notice that MS is discontinuing the service?

2. And are the servers working the same as, say, 2 weeks ago with the
traditional access to past messages.


David,

My apologies for the typo on you name in my previous reply.

1. No the newsgroups are not being withdrawn.

2. We are experiencing some problems at this time with our news servers
which are working to rectify.

I will not comment on the rest of your post. As I have not been involved
in
it and I have no knowledge of the obviously complex and long running
issues
you are having.

--
Regards,

Mike
--
Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights

Please note I cannot respond to e-mailed questions, please use these
newsgroups

"David Candy" wrote in message
...
My name is not Davis. Two questions.

1. Is this the official notice that MS is discontinuing the service?

2. And are the servers working the same as, say, 2 weeks ago with the
traditional access to past messages.

And a point. An apology 2 years and two months ago could have saved a
lot
of
nastiness, including MS's nastiness to me two nights ago.

Two months prior to MS wronging of me (well it was actually happening at
this time, I kept my temper for another two months) I finally got
annoyed
at
someone for posting a few thousand messages into the
microsoft.public.windowsme.* groups.

This is the most shamefull thing I ever did, I choose to swear now
rather
that ever be this nasty again in my life. This is me humilating someone
while pretending to be rational and caring.

The people posting 1000s of messages were from the alt.windows-me group,
so
I took the flame into their group rather than ours. Read it.


http://www.google.com.au/groups?hl=e...TF-8&safe=off&


threadm=3b32fa9c_3%40news01.one.net.au&rnum=1&prev =/groups%3Fnum%3D100%26hl%


3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26q%3DCary%2Bgrou


p%253Aalt.windows-me%2Bauthor%253Adavidc%40sia.net.au%26btnG%3DGoogl e%2BSear
ch

PS I have never sworn in ME or 98 or 3.1 or Dos groups. At the time this
happened I hadn't in any of the beta XP groups either. I had been here
for
5
years when this happened.

MS insistance on manipulating me through my friends by sending nod, nod,
wink, wink messages and refusal to protect me from the S3 Graphics
corporation stalking me is what our dispute is over. Not to mention
breaking
a program I had just spent 8 months working on in XP. As to # 2, all I
wanted was an apology. All I got was ignored, at least till you tried to
have me committed to a psych hospital 3 nights ago.
"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" wrote in message
...
Davis,

You have not "paid for this service" - it is a peer to peer support
community.
Even if you did pay for it - under the terms of the EULA that you
quoted,
you missed off the end of that section of the EULA.
The full section is copied below.
8. ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE/SERVICES. This EULA
applies to updates, supplements, add-on components,
or Internet-based services components, of the Software
that Microsoft may provide to you or make available to you
after the date you obtain your initial copy of the
Software, unless we provide other terms along with the
update, supplement, add-on component, or Internet-based
services component. Microsoft reserves the right to
discontinue any Internet-based services provided to you or
made available to you through the use of the Software.

Notice the important point - "... Microsoft reserves the right to
discontinue any Internet-based services provided to you or
made available to you through the use of the Software. ..."
Of course this is not relevant since this is not a "paid" for
"service".

--
Regards,

Mike
--
Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights

Please note I cannot respond to e-mailed questions, please use these
newsgroups

"David Candy" wrote in message
...
You feel free to go whenever you want too. Least I give accurate
answers
unlike you and your work mates.

PS I have paid for this service. This is not free but part of my
license
with Microsoft. From the retail EULA
This EULA
applies to updates, supplements, add-on components,
or Internet-based services components, of the Product that
Microsoft may provide to you or make available to you after
the date you obtain your initial copy of the Product,
unless we provide other terms along with the update,
supplement, add-on component, or Internet-based services
component.
"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" wrote in
message
...
David,

Since you are not forced to visit a site and if there are problems
you
may
leave and return later - no one is stealing anything from you.
You choose to visit the location that due to issues had
performance
and
operational problems. You are free to not wait there or to not
return
for
a
period of time.

--
Regards,

Mike
--
Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no
rights

Please note I cannot respond to e-mailed questions, please use
these
newsgroups

"David Candy" wrote in message
...