Outlook : Outlook.General ?

[Guest]

Why two outlook groups: which is supposed to be used for what?

S

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Care to explain yourself a bit more?

 

[Guest]

I am not a frequent user of the Outlook groups, but on writing my other
thread here I notice I have two Outlook groups to choose from:
microsoft.public.outlook which has 6375 messages in; and
microsoft.public.outlook.general, which has 22193 messages in. Both have up
to date messages in and they have similar types of messages in, so why are
there two such groups?

Regards,
S

Care to explain yourself a bit more?

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Why two outlook groups: which is supposed to be used for what?

S

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Because there have been two groups for years and years, and it's impossible to kill a group that's been around that long. There's no fundamental difference in content between them. Post in either one that strikes your fancy, but not both.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Competition eh: Perhaps public.outlook should offer a discount!

Cheers,

S


Because there have been two groups for years and years, and it's impossible
to kill a group that's been around that long. There's no fundamental
difference in content between them. Post in either one that strikes your
fancy, but not both.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Brian Tillman]

Why two outlook groups: which is supposed to be used for what?

At one time, the m.p.outlook container wasn't supposed to hold any
questions, but to be a node under which the real newsgroups resided.
Questions not covered by the other newsgroups under m.p.outlook were
supposed to go in m.p.o.general. After a while, though, people simply
started posting in m.p.outlook and now it and m.p.outlook.general are pretty
much identical in their use.