Goodbye Newgroup

[Rob Chandler [MVP]]

$#@ Why do some American's think it's "Summer" everywhere around the world
at the same time? :-)

FYI Please move all MS Help Authoring discussion to

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/devdocs/threads

Thanks
Rob
MS Help MVP

<nn...@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:OFkshHc...@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Date 5/4/2010
> Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing
> down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the
> rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide
> market trends and evolving customer needs.
>
> Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort,
> consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to
> retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment
> with less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search
> engines. Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management
> platform that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating
> discussions in a clean space.
>
> We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to the
> community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and
> resources to minimize disruption to the community discussions.
>
> We are working diligently on providing additional resources and
> information in local languages later this week. In the meantime, please
> refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx concerning
> this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in
> additional languages in the next few days.
>

[no-spam-for-idbciiapco...@cix.compulink.co.uk]

Well if you look at the map in this picture,
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2010/05/imag0102_2_.jpg

What do Americans know about Geography!
Err... are you SURE that's AFRICA mate :-)))

Eddie

In article <#vO8xWg#KHA....@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
sup...@nospam.helpware.net (Rob Chandler [MVP]) wrote:

> *From:* "Rob Chandler [MVP]" <sup...@nospam.helpware.net>
> *Date:* Sun, 23 May 2010 09:22:47 +1000

Eddie