I’m curious: How many people that visit this site use newsgroups? How many people even know what newsgroups are?
If you follow any Windows-related newsgroups, leave a comment (anonymous is OK) and tell me which ones you follow.
Also, do you use a newsgroup reader, like Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Agent, or Thunderbird? Or do you use a web-based reader like Google Groups or Microsoft newsgroups? Or do you have a completely different approach?
I’ve been a newsgroup person since probably 1994 or 1995. I frequent quite a few of the Microsoft public newsgroup. I can be found in the MSN and Windows Live newsgroups, but I also follow the Vista groups, albeit at a distance – mostly scanning headers and reading selectively, with an occasional reply.
I have periodically used newsgroups. For years, I used Agent. Since Vista, I have used Windows Mail for newsgroups as well.
I posted on the Microsoft Vista newsgroups for a few weeks. My experience is pretty much identical to Serdar’s, but I bet he has much more patience than I do.