Subject: Ian:Kindly stop directing Outlook Express Windows users to dead li
6/20/2008 2:54 PM PST
By: Sterlingo In: microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac
The reason there are so many PC users, Ian, intruding on your hallowed Mac
ground, is that Microsoft has mothballed its Windows XP Discussion Group.
And they didn't just archive it -- they deleted the vast majority of a
decade's worth of discussion on XP, IE and, yes, Outlook Express.
"Ian_" wrote:
> It might be because the ".mac" bit is at the end, and probably gets
chopped
> off in their view of things.
> <microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress...>
>
> Also, as OE is intertwined with IE, there are strange group names;
> <microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress>
> Which look discouraging when truncated;
> <microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie...
>
> So they end up here.
>
> 26 groups with "outlookexpress" in the name.
>
> The most promising for PC users might be;
> <microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress> ?
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