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Microsoft to do for Usenet what it did for Email & The Web?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brace-for-impact dept.

tjones2 writes "Seems like Microsoft isn't content with sad state of email these days. They now want to "make engaging with communities easier and friendlier". This means extending their reach into Usenet." Fortunately most of Usenet is such a cespool that really they can only make it better. And after cornering the market on email worms, imagine the benefits they can bring to NNTP!

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  1. Re:Great - more e-mail addresses for spammers by Mr.+Piddle · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I mod down anyone who uses M$ in their posts. I like to live on the edge.

    Now, I force you to mod down your own sig! Ha, but you must destroy your parent post to do it! Will this paradox bring Slashdot, and perhaps the world as we know it, to a firey end? Will we even know it happened, or will it just vanish in a puff of nothingness...

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  2. Re:usenet is ok the way it is by 0x0d0a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, are you actually TheRealMike, or do all the autopackage developers include a link in their signature?

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  3. Re:Don't forget the stupidity of their newsreader. by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Brilliant. Also typical Microsoft. Tell the rest of the world to accomidate their stupidity.

    The reason motherboards are specifically forbidden (PCsomeyear or other) from allowing users to switch between APM and ACAPI is because Windows has a piss-poor architecture WRT ACAPI that has totally different sets of code that run in an ACAPI and non-ACAPI environment.

    As a result, everyone's stuck with buying a motherboard that only supports one or the other.

    You have no *idea* the amount of third-party poor engineering that hits the computer world that Microsoft has caused.

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