publisher public newsgroup

[Kaye Payne]

Hi,

Where has this newsgroup (Publisher Public) disappeared to?

Kaye Payne

 

[Spike]

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...d2a-5046-48e4-8634-864432b5f14c&lang=en&cr=us


Spike

 

[Kaye Payne]

Thankyou ever so much.

Why does it not list anymore in Newsgroup options I wonder.

KP

 

[LVTravel]

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...d2a-5046-48e4-8634-864432b5f14c&lang=en&cr=us


Spike

Why-oh-why would you send anyone to the web interface for the newsgroup.
You are just asking them to have issues.

You should have told them to create a new newsgroup account in their Outlook
Express program for news.microsoft.com or msnews.microsoft.com and then
gotten all of Microsoft's newsgroups from that account. I do this and I am
happy with the server as it is fast and has all the current MS newsgroups
and I can also use this newsgroup method on Vista's Mail or Windows Live
Mail depending on what machine I am using or wherever I connect to the
internet (as long as they don't block newsgroup access.)

TO THE OP:

Follow my advice for all Microsoft newsgroups. I would suspect that your
ISP has dropped that or possibly more newsgroups from their server. Many
ISPs don't mirror many of the various newsgroups that are floating on the
internet. For all other newsgroups I use news.motzarella.org (see
www.motzarella.org for signup instructions) which is a free news server and
I am extremely happy with them. I do not use my ISP's servers anymore since
I can't post messages through their ISP when I am not connected to them. I
currently am posting this from my laptop while on vacation in Las Vegas. I
couldn't do that if I was using my ISP's servers.

 

[Kaye Payne]

I found the information I was looking for from Spikes lead. I was just
asking where the newsgroup had disappeared to. A week ago I used it to
inquire about a booklet and then it just disappeared from the newsgroup list
and it has been there for years. A mystery but from the link Spike gave me I
found the booklet answer but still wonder why it is not listed as a
newsgroup anymore.

KP

 

[DavidF]

You would probably have to contact the provider of the newsgroup, or your
ISP to find out why they know longer offer the newsgroup. It is impossible
for us to know why it is no longer available.

What LVtravel was suggesting was that all the Publisher newsgroups are
available through the microsoft servers and the other newsgroup service he
recommended. Here is the newsgroup I use:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign
If you click that link, and are using OE then it will open. Also there may
be confusion in terms. Newsgroups are usually associated with NNTP and
forums with browser connections. Anyway, I do tend to agree with LVtravel
and do not use forums. They are generally way to slow and inefficient.

Good luck.

DavidF

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

its always better to get it from the ms server, rather than your isp's


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