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Generic Word newsgroup?
I accessed the groups microsoft.public.word.general and
microsoft.public.word using Google Groups. Unfortunately, they no longer carry those groups as live forums, just as archives. It is very strange a forum for generic Word questions has so little activity that this happened. What is the closest Word group for generic Word questions? Thanks. |
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Paul wrote:
I accessed the groups microsoft.public.word.general and microsoft.public.word using Google Groups. Unfortunately, they no longer carry those groups as live forums, just as archives. It is very strange a forum for generic Word questions has so little activity that this happened. What is the closest Word group for generic Word questions? Thanks. This is it. :-) The archived groups were removed from the Microsoft news servers. Although there are still some independent servers that support them, their traffic is very low now. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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On Mar 11, 4:37 pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
Paul wrote: I accessed the groups microsoft.public.word.general and microsoft.public.word using Google Groups. Unfortunately, they no longer carry those groups as live forums, just as archives. It is very strange a forum for generic Word questions has so little activity that this happened. What is the closest Word group for generic Word questions? Thanks. This is it. :-) The archived groups were removed from the Microsoft news servers. Although there are still some independent servers that support them, their traffic is very low now. It's odd isn't it? There is a perfectly good ".general" subgroup for Word, then a much less general ".docmanagement" alternative comes along, presumably mushrooms in scope, then assumes the role of the previous ".general". A bit like slang. New words become vogue, but meaning similar things to old words, which drop out of usage. |
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Well, it's a long story. The problem with word.general was that it attracted
all the questions. People who were too lazy to figure out what their question was really about would just post in .general. Eventually it got to be unmanageable, so MS deprecated it, though it survived for quite a long time (and may still survive, for all I know) on other news servers. Then Microsoft created the Office Communities on the Web. It was decreed that each product group had to have one NG for "General Questions." This is where the Word MVPs sort of slipped up. No one was really sure what word.docmanagement was supposed to be for, and in any case, it was a very low-traffic NG, so we said, "If you *must* have one, take that one." So word.docmanagement became Word General Questions in the Web portal, and now it's the one with the unmanageable traffic, much to the confusion of users like you who post via NNTP or Google Groups. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Paul" wrote in message ... On Mar 11, 4:37 pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote: Paul wrote: I accessed the groups microsoft.public.word.general and microsoft.public.word using Google Groups. Unfortunately, they no longer carry those groups as live forums, just as archives. It is very strange a forum for generic Word questions has so little activity that this happened. What is the closest Word group for generic Word questions? Thanks. This is it. :-) The archived groups were removed from the Microsoft news servers. Although there are still some independent servers that support them, their traffic is very low now. It's odd isn't it? There is a perfectly good ".general" subgroup for Word, then a much less general ".docmanagement" alternative comes along, presumably mushrooms in scope, then assumes the role of the previous ".general". A bit like slang. New words become vogue, but meaning similar things to old words, which drop out of usage. |
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