Web access to the 2k3 newsgroups is messed up

On December 29, 2008, in news, by

Welcome to Microsoft Discussion Groups:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/

To anyone trying to post to the 2k3 newsgroups today, I have to apologize.  The web interface is totally and utterly messed up to the point that when you click on any discussion group in there you get a Service temporarily unavailable:

So I’d recommend that for today that you not rely on the web interface and use the old, clunky, everyone obviously hates it because everyone keeps pronouncing it dead, NNTP.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

It’s working.

The web isn’t.

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2 Responses to Web access to the 2k3 newsgroups is messed up

  1. Greg McConnel says:
    December 30, 2008 at 12:55 am

    I switched to Windows Mail (the new Outlook Express) when these issues started. I don’t know why I ever started using the web based newsgroups in the first place. The email client is a much better way to read and post.

  2. Robear Dyer, MS MVP says:
    December 30, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Web-based access to MS Public Newsgroups died c. 18:00 UTC, 23 Dec-08; Web-based access returned c. 23:00 UTC, 29 Dec-08.

    Why has there been no public comment from MS about this to date?

    PS: “Old, clunky, everyone obviously hates it” describes the web-based access, not NNTP access IMHO.