@officeformac.com

[Valente]

Hello

Where is so many people posting here getting those cute @officeformac.com
email adressses?

One get one after registering the product with Microsoft? I didn't
registered mine, or I am not sure. Maybe I will try to register to get such
unusual email adress.

 

[Diane Ross]

Where is so many people posting here getting those cute @officeformac.com
email adressses?

It must be part of registering on the Mactopia interface to this newsgroup.
I guess it's to hide real user emails. BTW, you should use a no spam email
address for newsgroups.

For directions on creating your own fake 'nospam' account see:

One get one after registering the product with Microsoft? I didn't
registered mine, or I am not sure. Maybe I will try to register to get such
unusual email adress.

It's not from registering. Currently, the Mactopia site is broken for this
function. "Registration" has nothing to do with the operation of the
software - unlike the Activation required for MS Windows software. It's
little more than a marketing tool.

 

[Valente]

Thanks for answering. I am in this newsgroups in the old usenet way, using
Entourage Office 2008. Entourage is great for newsgroups, by the way.
I don't mind about this e-mail, I use it for nothing serious and even so it
gets much less spam than my "clean" personal and work emails. When it start
attracting too much spam I just forget about it and made a new one
somewhere.

 

[Diane Ross]

Thanks for answering. I am in this newsgroups in the old usenet way, using
Entourage Office 2008. Entourage is great for newsgroups, by the way.

Any my grateful thanks to all that use a real newsreader to post. The new
interface has made our job so much harder. I hope to see our concerns fixed
soon.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi JR:

Well, the "officeformac.com" addresses are actually the cloaking mechanism
applied by the WebCrossing server that is now serving the Mactopia web pages
and hosting the interface between the Web and the Microsoft Communities SQL
server that feeds the Microsoft NNTP Server Farm.

The new front end is a giant leap forward in many respects. However, they
are currently still working on it, and strange things may happen for the
next few weeks while they iron out the bugs.

This is a new vendor, and they are a hell of a lot more responsive and
competent than the old vendor

For example: Note the correct threading by reference?

But the interface presented to the Users is designed to be "blog-like"
because that's what users apparently find familiar these days. So both the
machine and the users are currently struggling with the concept of
"threaded" discussions

Go to Mactopia and have a look at the new "Find Help" pages. I suspect you
may be quite impressed. It's an elegant piece of coding, and the response
times are pure bliss compared with the old interface

Cheers

Nope that can't be. I'm not registered there and I don't use the web
interface to access these groups, and I've seen posts I made with
MT-NewsWatcher (a news client) where my email address was substituted by
a @officeformac.com address!

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[John McGhie]

Hi JR:

That may be, but that doesn't really explain why *my* posts have that
address, since my posts originate from Usenet rather than the web
interface.

Yeah, well I was delicately tap-dancing around that because I do not really
know...

I can only assume that the replication stream "out" of the NNTP farm that
other servers peer with, is not necessarily compiled by the NNTP server
farm.

It may be that they loop the received posts from the NNTP farm through the
SQL Server, mix in the posts gathered from the Communities front-end and the
Mactopia front-end (there are two of them) and then recompile the combined
result out into an NNTP stream, and push that out on the UUCP feed to the
peering servers.

Somewhere in that mix, you got "cloaked"

Of course, it could simply have been an outburst of High Entertainment Value
that produced an emergency "restore" The Mactopia mechanism is very new
and they are making some quite intrusive changes in quick succession right
now. As you well know, a complex system can become very unstable if you do
that

Cheers

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