Mike
Tue Sep 16 22:43:00 CDT 2008
> Who deems what is defunct.
Microsoft. (It's very difficult to get a Usenet newsgroup removed while
there are still posts to it. This is one way of cutting down on the
number of posts - not that it seems to work)
Their intention in doing that was no doubt to encourage people to move
to their new newsgroups for all SP products (.setup_and_administration;
.design_and_customization; .development_and_programming and .general).
Times change however and the present Microsoft line is to get people to
post to the *forums* (which they control and where they are constantly
improving the software behind them)
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint
where in addition to the equivalent forums for those new newsgroups
there are also more specific ones like BDC; Workflow; InfoPath; and Search.
Mike Walsh
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S.Clark wrote:
> I've resisted posting in this newsgroup, as it falls under the 'Defunct
> Groups' in the left hand nav pane. Should I post here instead? Who deems
> what is defunct.
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> ???
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