Raul

>> I'm not normally into conspiracy theory but I wonder if this "beautiful work" is the reason for the NNTP newsgroups demise rather than a response to it?
>
>To paraphrase Hanlon'z Razor - never attribute to conspiracy that which
>is adequately explained by stupidity and incompetence.
>
>(I'm referring to EMBT management here and not forum admins).

You're quite right. Its probably all just a "happy" coincidence

>Considering how little EMB employees were contributing to NGs i would
>not be surprised if management had little idea of their value.

Neither would I

>I know personally without NNTP i will simply stop visiting and might end
>up there only if searching for a specific problem now (and likely will
>use SO first anyways).

I will certainly miss Peter Below, and Rudy answering my questions. I could use the new mechanism but I'm not sure I'd be able to find my question again let alone an answer. Well not when it fills up a bit anyway.

Roy

Malcolm wrote:

>
> I have just spotted the blog from Nick Hodges dated 6 Sept.
> http://www.nickhodges.com/
> If true it makes depressing reading.

I'm told that is wrong in another place. And they do seem to be
operating. What a mess this is!

--

Matthew Jones

Matthew


>I'm told that is wrong in another place. And they do seem to be
>operating. What a mess this is!

I just did a quick check and the message numbers seem to have been wound back again.

At this point, and totally ignoring their luverly new community website, they'd probably be better off dragging the old data to one side and resetting all the forums back to zero so we can at least use them going forward. Hopefully (not very hopefuly though) they could then work on putting the old messages somewhere they could be read but not written to.

Roy Lambert

Matthew Jones wrote:

> Malcolm wrote:
>
> >
> > I have just spotted the blog from Nick Hodges dated 6 Sept.
> > http://www.nickhodges.com/
> > If true it makes depressing reading.
>
> I'm told that is wrong in another place. And they do seem to be
> operating. What a mess this is!

Well, I hope you are right.
I far prefer to use a news reader where I can have all the feeds I want
in the one app.
It has been a real pain over the last month.