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Hello (News-)Group!

we, the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) aka "Indigo" team, have two
places for Q&A about WCF; here in the newsgroups and over at the MSDN Forums
(http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/sho...x?forumid=118).

As things go, that's one place too many for us to track closely. We've got
excellent tools for seeing what's going on in the forums (most people on our
team get a daily mail listing all open questions), but there's not quite as
good tooling for the Newsgroups. And the forums are, quite frankly, quite a
bit more versatile in terms of functionality than NNTP.

So what happens is that while some of us (like me now) may swing by here
every once in a while, most of the WCF team is closely watching the MSDN
forum and we are very actively answering your questions over there, because
the tools push the questions straight into our inboxes.

And, yes, we've had the thought about doing some replication between here
and there, but that isn't a very practical thing to do for a variety of
reasons.

We all recognize that newsgroups are an established and excellent tool and
this group isn't going away (even though it's not a too far fetched guess
that "indigo" designation won't last), but they have been and still are
mostly a self-help tool. Since we're interested what you do with our stuff,
we'd like to see and answer your questions and therefore I'd like to
encourage you to come over to the MSDN Forums for Q&A:

http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/sho...px?forumid=118

And of course (I shouldn't have to point that out, but just to be clear on
that) you can (should!) always jump in and respond to questions or
participate in discussions over in the forums whenever you have an answer at
hand or have a pointer to a resource (blog entry, etc.) explaining a
solution. And believe me, if you are one of the kings of this newsgroup,
you'll be recognized as a king over there as well. Your fame won't suffer
;-)

Thank you,
Clemens

Clemens Vasters - Program Manager
Windows Communication Foundation - Microsoft Corp.