Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

Ok, thanks for the ruling.

How do you find out if your website is DDA compliant?
Here are some simple checks you can do for yourself.

* Can you resize the text on your website to 18px or larger?
* Can you navigate easily WITHOUT using your mouse?

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

I believe the phrase the "kids" use is....

ROFL:rofl:

Thank you for cheering up my day...:D

Oxford English Dictionary -
Guess - estimate or suppose (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct
Logic - reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity

Your statement "guessing at logic" is oxymoronic.;)

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

Do you know where you went wrong there, and it totally messes it all up?

You replace the That's you telling the staff to log in.
with the true quote of
You're not taking into account that it's only risen from about 2 members because of the announcement in the virgin groups, and the new numbers are just them people

ROFL :rofl:

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

Yes and Yes

---------- Post added at 13:56 ---------- Previous post was at 13:55 ----------

Already done

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...22nd/m-p/28556

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

Good stuff.

we'll continue provide our world class Usenet News service

Apart from missing the word to and being a joke calling it world class :)

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

Good point, well made <my bad at quick edit>

Your "guessing at logic" statement is still complete oxymoronic bolleaux, though. ;)

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

You need to edit it again Mark.
who previous provided support to the Virgin Media Newsgroups

the ly has dropped off the end :)

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

I find it quite amusing that they are getting rid of the text server entirely while continuing to pay for access to the outsourced warez repository but each to their own.

It's a policy decision, they want people on the forum, simples.

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

The text server was better to use as there was no binaries and so much spam. I think they will be doing away with the binary server too soon.

they will get rid of the text one now. later when they announce that the binary one is to close, they will re-open the text server as a way of making up for it.

them are just what I think will happen. I don't have any proof that this is how it will happen :)

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

I reckon it won't be too long, we always hear 'we have no plans to do so' then shortly afterwards they do.

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

I've been reading random posts in the forum, and I'm seeing a lot of negative threads being made. these seem to be made from new members.
probably upset members that are losing the text server to this forum.

I can see this forum thing being a bad thing for Virgin. it's an official Virgin forum that is open to all. whether they be a customer or not.

it's like having the private criticisms and complaints which were hidden on usenet, now being made publicly available for all to see.

it only needs for a post to be edited or deleted by Virgin on the forum, and everyone is going to make an issue of it. an issue for all outside the once internal private groups to see.

What's that phrase about a loaded gun?

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

There have been a few posts on the change, but not that many and there have also been some positive comments about support being redirected onto the forums.

Yes it is, but that isn't a bad thing (or a good thing). A forum is what the people that use it make of it. If people are going to join and have a general moan then it won't work. If however people join and contribute in a constructive way then it will achieve what it's there to do.

Again can't see an issue with this. If there are problems, then surely it makes more sense to address them head on and seen to be doing so - rather than trying to hide them away where few people see them?

If a post is edited or deleted it means that the poster broke the forum rules. The same happens on every web forum there is - including this one. So the only people making an issue about it may be some of those users of the newsgroups who are used to not sticking to the guidelines

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

I wish Virgin would stop comparing themselves as all other forums :)

I think it's clear that I meant a post edited or deleted that hasn't broken the forum rules. but as you say that won't happen.

but for how long can you allow it to happen while it's not breaking any rules? ;)

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

If a post is deleted it could be simply VM want to hide that a lot of people are unhappy, so much easier to do so now.

Re: [Merged] Technical Support via newsgroups is withdrawn.
 

And if they don't delete it, then before it was only available to see if you were a Virgin customer. where now it's out in public for all to see.