What's happened?

[Kieran H]

I was a regular user of this group over the years and learned much of
what I know today from those individuals willing to share their
experience and knowledge. However, I've been away for a year or so
and now find the activity level has significantly reduced. What
happened? Where has everyone gone?

I feel like the address for the party has changed and nobody told
me!

Any thoughts?

Regards

Kieran

 

[trip_to_tokyo]

I was a regular user of this group over the years and learned much of
what I know today from those individuals willing to share their
experience and knowledge.  However, I've been away for a year or so
and now find the activity level has significantly reduced.  What
happened?  Where has everyone gone?

I feel like the address for the party has changed and nobody told
me!

Any thoughts?

Regards

Kieran

This is where:-
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/customize?page=1&tab=no

 

[Rick Rothstein]

I was a regular user of this group over the years and learned

much of what I know today from those individuals willing to
share their experience and knowledge. However, I've been
away for a year or so and now find the activity level has
significantly reduced. What happened? Where has
everyone gone?

I feel like the address for the party has changed and nobody
told me!

The address did change and nobody told you because you weren't around.<g>

Microsoft closed down all of their newsgroup servers and expanded their
forums to handle the traffic. This (and other "microsoft" newsgroups) are
the remnants of the original newsgroups that remained because they were
replicated on other news servers (Microsoft could not close them down
because they did not own them). Here is the location for the forums...

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/excel

Rick Rothstein (MVP - Excel)

 

[Kieran H]

The address did change and nobody told you because you weren't around.<g>

Microsoft closed down all of their newsgroup servers and expanded their
forums to handle the traffic. This (and other "microsoft" newsgroups) are
the remnants of the original newsgroups that remained because they were
replicated on other news servers (Microsoft could not close them down
because they did not own them). Here is the location for the forums...

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/excel

Rick Rothstein (MVP - Excel)

Many thanks to all. I will go to the party and walk in backwards to
make it look like I never left! - perhaps looking a little sheepish <g>

 

[Charlotte E]

Forums killed the free excahnge of information on the Internet!

Newsgroups was free, easy, and simple...

Now-a-days, you have to sign up to Forums, giving away many personal
information, and registrer :-(

And, where as you previsous only had to look one place (the newsgroup), you
now have to sign up, and look in dozens of Forums, since each and every
website thinks its "fancy" to have their own Forum - or Blog for that
matter!

For some reason people and companies have gotten control-freaks, and what to
control and register who's reading the information!!!

Forums sucks!
Newsgroups are still the best simplest and easiest way to really exchange
information...

Just my 0.02 euros...

CE