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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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