Is anyone managing these newsgroups? Well, that's mostly no but a yes for
MSDN subscribers. In general, these newsgroups as simply community spaces
where you can discuss problems with other users. Answers are not guaranteed
to be correct, nor is there even any promise that you will get an answer,
but there are many folks out here volunteering their time and expertise to
help others. On the other hand, if you are an MSDN subscriber and posted
using the Display E-mail address listed in your MSDN profile, MSDN promises
that you'll get an answer within 1 business day. The answer might not
necessarily be from Microsoft, but there is a team monitoring the managed
newsgroups and if the answer isn't correct, they'll step in. There are
around 230 MSDN Managed Newsgroups and this is one of them. I believe that
the list is available at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/aa974230.aspx.
So I guess my questions to you are, are you an MSDN subscriber and did you
post that message a few days ago using the Display E-mail address in your
MSDN profile? And I'm sorry, but I'm not on that MSDN team and don't have
the tool they use to determine whether or not a post comes from an MSDN
subscriber.