"Leon Mayne" <le**@rmvme.mvps.orgwrote in message
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"Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <no************@planet.nlwrote in message
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>Where did you get the idea that MSFT moderate the newsgroups, nobody is
doing it as it are UseNet newsgroups.
MSDN use the newsgroups to give help to MSDN subscripters, which is done
by MSFT, they are in noway moderate the newsgroups.
The deleting of post is not done by MSFT. This is only as it is spam or
as asked to the newsgroup admin, as is normal with usenet newsgroups. (It
does not even make sense as everything is very quick loaded by by
instance Google on their newsgroup servers but not only Google, however
everybody who has a newsserver).
Cor, what does it matter? My original point is that if one of the MSFTs
(or even one of the MVPs) was to make a futurepost then it would be more
credible than average joe doing it. I'm not looking for a philisophical
discussion about who owns usenet and the process of moderation.
The problem is that there's a place where people have a dropdown to the
newsgroup on microsoft.com somewhere. The dropdown makes a guess at what the
group is from the last part of the name. So all of the groups ending in
".general" show up as "General Discussion".
Guess which one is probably the first one in the list.
I actually sent in a complaint on Connect, and there's also a place in the
web discussion groups on microsoft.com where you can submit a complaint. I
did that too.
Think how those people who post here erroneously feel. They don't know any
better, and they are desperate for some help just like the people who post
here correctly.
Even if someone futureposted, it wouldn't matter. Most people who come in
with a question just post it, they don't actually look at the messages prior
to doing that, or they might realize it's a programming newsgroup.
RobinS.
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