On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:51:59 +0100, Walter Briscoe
wrote:
There are probably virtues in the forums. All I can see to date is
1) They are promoted by Microsoft.
2) Their Traffic is likely to be heavier than in traditional newsgroups
now that they exist.
Much lighter, at least so far. MS is not prominently publicizing these groups,
and they seem to be harder to find than the newsgroups.
3) Less spam - I assume this is true.
That at least appears to be the case - there are moderators who do remove
blatant spam promptly. The registration requirement (even if it's just the
need to use a msn email account) probably does the most to keep spam down.
--
John W. Vinson [MVP]
Microsoft's replacements for these newsgroups:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...-US/accessdev/
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/.../en-US/addbuz/
and see also
http://www.utteraccess.com