Posted February 23, 201014 yr Nah, something is wrong on your system as there are well over a hundred groups. http://aumha.org/nntp.htm Rhino wrote: > I come to this newsgroup periodically when I have an issue with Windows but > that doesn't happen very often. > > I'm using Outlook Express on XP as my news reader and when I try to get a > complete list of newsgroups on msnews.microsoft.com, this > (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general) is the ONLY newsgroup listed on the > whole server. > > What's going on? Has Microsoft gone over to a web-based approach and > abandoned usenet as I suspect? If they have, what is this one solitary > newsgroup still doing in existence? Surely it can't be worth the bother to > keep the new server alive for only one newsgroup, even if it is fairly > heavily used like this one..... > > If this news server IS dead, where are we supposed to be going? > -- > Rhino > >
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