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by: DK - Tue, 14 Feb 2023 03:21 UTC

Eternal September server says no microsoft.public.* groups are
available anymore.

Wat it Eternal September or Microsoft or were microsoft.* groups
purged from Usenet altogether?

Thanks!

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by: Nil - Tue, 14 Feb 2023 08:15 UTC

On 13 Feb 2023, dk@no.email.thankstospam.net (DK) wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:

> Eternal September server says no microsoft.public.* groups are
> available anymore.
>
> Wat it Eternal September or Microsoft or were microsoft.* groups
> purged from Usenet altogether?

Microsoft disengaged from Usenet and their own "official" newsgroups
several years ago. Those groups were carried by man/most netnews
services worldwide, so they have persisted without MS's blessing. Over
time they have become a major target of spammers, leading to their
removal from eternal-september by its administrator. It's not a
worldwide purge, though - they should be available on other news
servers. Don't ask me which ones, though.

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by: DK - Wed, 15 Feb 2023 06:55 UTC

In article <XnsAFAB21194DA70nilch1@wheedledeedle.moc>, Nil <rednoise9@rednoise9.invalid> wrote:
>On 13 Feb 2023, dk@no.email.thankstospam.net (DK) wrote in
>alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:
>
>> Eternal September server says no microsoft.public.* groups are
>> available anymore.
>>
>> Wat it Eternal September or Microsoft or were microsoft.* groups
>> purged from Usenet altogether?
>
>Microsoft disengaged from Usenet and their own "official" newsgroups
>several years ago. Those groups were carried by man/most netnews
>services worldwide, so they have persisted without MS's blessing. Over
>time they have become a major target of spammers, leading to their
>removal from eternal-september by its administrator. It's not a
>worldwide purge, though - they should be available on other news
>servers. Don't ask me which ones, though.

Thanks! makes sense.

Subject	Author
access to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general?	DK
access to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general?	Nil
access to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general?	DK