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Reading http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx .....

Here are the features M$ highlights for their web based forum migration:

> Support for Questions and Answers
How about usenet? Doesn't it have this "feature"?

> Subscription and Notification Services
In other words: SPAM. Annoying messages sent to your mail box saying that
someone replied your message. Very useful to heavy users, heh?

> Escalations
Why doesn't M$ do it here??????

> Enhanced Online Discoverability
Mirror the darn usenet and make it "googleable".

> Administration, Moderation and Answering
Censorship! Pretty handy when you open your threads to 15+ million people.

> Integrated Profile and Recognition System
Privacy breaker! Intended for users who can't even say what their systems
are. Not applicable to usenet users. I wouldn't want M$ to "recognize" my
system, not in this lifetime, thank you.


Now the best "feature" M$ forgot to mention:

> Banners with adds !

You don't want spam, don't sign up for it from the forums. Very few of us
here like it, but there really isn't any point at all in whinging, since it
won't change. Beyond that, at least be accurate.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"TMA" <> wrote in message
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> Reading http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx .....
>
> Here are the features M$ highlights for their web based forum migration:
>
>> Support for Questions and Answers
> How about usenet? Doesn't it have this "feature"?
>
>> Subscription and Notification Services
> In other words: SPAM. Annoying messages sent to your mail box saying that
> someone replied your message. Very useful to heavy users, heh?
>
>> Escalations
> Why doesn't M$ do it here??????
>
>> Enhanced Online Discoverability
> Mirror the darn usenet and make it "googleable".
>
>> Administration, Moderation and Answering
> Censorship! Pretty handy when you open your threads to 15+ million people.
>
>> Integrated Profile and Recognition System
> Privacy breaker! Intended for users who can't even say what their systems
> are. Not applicable to usenet users. I wouldn't want M$ to "recognize" my
> system, not in this lifetime, thank you.
>
>
> Now the best "feature" M$ forgot to mention:
>
>> Banners with adds !
>