There is very little traffic in these microsoft.public.* groups
since Microsoft pulled the plug on the gateway between them and
the MS web forums a year or two ago, but a few of us are still
around. I answered one of your questions yesterday.
Yeah, pretty much everyone was on the Microsoft web board side of
this group, so they disappeared from Usenet when MS cut the link.
If you get desperate, you can go to MS's website!