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Ian_ - 02 Jun 2008 12:09 GMT

End up in this group of about 36 "explorer" groups?

This is (nearly) the only one that explicitly has ".explorer" in the group
name.

The IE6 groups (only 14 out of more than 2,000 on the Microsoft News
Server), most being non-English, apart from;
<microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser> etc.
Can't blame the users for the cryptic group names.

Last time I looked, IE7 had only a French and German group,
guess Microsoft assume their help pages suffice...

HTH, &B-) Ian
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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 04 Jun 2008 00:57 GMT

> End up in this group of about 36 "explorer" groups?
>
> This is (nearly) the only one that explicitly has ".explorer" in the group
> name.

And right before it, there is a "mac" that most people tend to ignore.
I couldn't agree more though, the group-namingis quite inconsistent and
leads to much confusion.
Renaming a group is not a trivial thing though so I suspect we'll be
stuck with this structure for a while.

Corentin

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Ian_ - 10 Jun 2008 19:37 GMT

Hi Corentin,
I've been using rules/filters to try and make it more Mac relevant,
by colour coding for ie6, ie7, Vista, (and your [Wrong Group]) etc.
That helps a bit... (Thanks too).

Corentin Cras-Méneur wrote on 4/6/2008 12:57 am:

>> End up in this group of about 36 "explorer" groups?
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> Corentin

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Ever wonder why so many PC users?