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VB Forum / General 2 / July 2008What happened?
I stopped accessing this group for a while. When I came back it was almost dead. Each day there seem to be fewer and fewer postings and yet yet the other Classic VB group microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion is booming. Why would anyone prefer a Microsoft group? What did I miss? Tony -- > I stopped accessing this group for a while. When I came back it was > almost dead. Each day there seem to be fewer and fewer postings and > yet yet the other Classic VB group > microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion is booming. Why would anyone > prefer a Microsoft group? Because the most well-known visual BASIC is a Microsoft product? > What did I miss? The impending doom of Usenet? Seriously. I was off the Internet for about 6 months (second half of 2006), and in that time, most of the groups that I subscribe to died. Even the "hack" groups, previously very busy groups, are bunches slower than before.  SignatureEvil is a point of view. Free access to the MS NNTP server while many ISPs are dropping their NNTP servers? That's my theory > I stopped accessing this group for a while. When I came back it was > almost dead. Each day there seem to be fewer and fewer postings and yet [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Tony > -- Tony Sewell <tony@caratao.com>'s wild thoughts were released on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:04:32 +0100 bearing the following fruit: >I stopped accessing this group for a while. When I came back it was >almost dead. Each day there seem to be fewer and fewer postings and yet >yet the other Classic VB group microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion is >booming. Why would anyone prefer a Microsoft group? > >What did I miss? Dunno why, maybe some servers have stopped carrying them. -- Jan Hyde https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Jan.Hyde Thanks for the replies A bit of truth in them all I imagine. Ah well; as the Greeks used to say and the Geeks obviously still do ... "Change is everything" Except of course in the case of Classic VB. Tony -- > Thanks for the replies > > A bit of truth in them all I imagine. Ah well; as the Greeks used > to say and the Geeks obviously still do ... "Change is everything" > Except of course in the case of Classic VB. I wouldn't mind some changes. A non-.Net VB7 with better networking, easier console access, and 64-bit ints would be nice. (My wishlist gets bigger every day; that's just a tiny sample.) SignatureDo it once, do it right, and forget it forever. >I stopped accessing this group for a while. When I came back it was >almost dead. Each day there seem to be fewer and fewer postings and yet >yet the other Classic VB group microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion is >booming. Why would anyone prefer a Microsoft group? > >What did I miss? Some ISPs have been cutting off their own Usenet servers, but the MS servers are free/accessible. You also get a few more ex- and current MVPs who are very active in the MS groups which may mean a wider skill set to draw on and more rapid answers...although that's not to put down any of the active regulars in here :) SignatureAlfie [UK] <http://www.delphia.co.uk/> A fool and his money are soon partying. |
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