Re: Hello is vc.language group still in existance

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:53:16 -0700

Message-ID:

<eVrRLULCLHA.5584@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>

OP was talking about the vc.lang newsgroup which Microsoft already dropped
from their server. I assume it's still available using other servers. This
NG is still here so OP could post the question here pretty easily.

:o)

Tom

"Stuart Redmann" <DerTopper@web.de> wrote in message
news:966f5659-aa75-4cfc-9681-59f5e9956041@a30g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...

On 10 Jun., 01:35, Jack <j...@knight.com> wrote:

I want to subscribe. But no longer get access to it. Why?
Thanks
Jack

Sorry for highjacking your thread,

I was actually about to ask why you had to suscribe to anything in
order to post to this group (since you are already posting here), but
then I remembered the good old time when my employee let me use a real
newsreader. Nowadays its only Google Groups for me :-(

This raised the following questions: How can MS shut down this
newsgroup at all? Won't this group still exist on every other
newsserver (or at least on Google Groups)? Has MS any kind of
ownership of the microsoft.public.vc.mfc group?

I'm probably missing the right technical term for "newsgroup
ownership", as I cannot find any relevant information about this on
Google.

Thanks in advance,
Stuart

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