I'm currently doing that now with a NNTP server
other than msnews. Hopefully, MS will keep its
hands off of the existing NGs.

Most of the online forums I've tried don't fair very
well against OE's news reader, both from the point
of view of navigation and watched thread alerts.

Bill


"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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Bill wrote:

What's the word regarding the future of the OE NG when MS pulls the
plug on its msnews server? Does MS intend to issue a rmgroup across
the entire Usenet to bag all the Microsoft.Public.* NG's?

No, I'm not Bruce.

Giganews says it will continue carrying the microsoft.* newsgroups.
Google Groups is unlikely to drop them. My NSP (Albasani) says they
will ignore any 'rmgroup' commands issued by Julien Elie or any other
self-appointed egotistical Usenet admin.

Microsoft is dropping their NNTP server (and thereby any peering to it).
Microsoft is not the Usenet, a worldwide mesh network of NNTP servers
over which Microsoft has no control (and partially the reason why they
are retreating to web-based forums). So you will lose the availability
of Microsoft's NNTP server to get at their pretend forums (aka
Communities) via their webnews-for-dummies gateway. Start looking
around for another NSP since they are likely to continue carrying the
microsoft.* newsgroups.