Group intentions

[William B. Lurie]

This group is ....windowsxp.basics

There is also a group ....windowsxp.general ....

Can one of the MVPs tell me what the distinction
might be?

William B. Lurie

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

William,

Basics would seem to imply just that. More of a "How do I?" than addressing
specific problems with the operating system. General is kind a of a catch
all for anything that doesn't fit one of the other available groups.
However, it doesn't really seem to matter what the topic is, or group.
Users will post their questions in whatever group they find, cross post to
numerous groups, if they think it will help them get an answer faster.
--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
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"William B. Lurie" > wrote in message
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> This group is ....windowsxp.basics
>
> There is also a group ....windowsxp.general ....
>
> Can one of the MVPs tell me what the distinction
> might be?
>
> William B. Lurie
>
>

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

William,

Basics would seem to imply just that. More of a "How do I?" than addressing
specific problems with the operating system. General is kind a of a catch
all for anything that doesn't fit one of the other available groups.
However, it doesn't really seem to matter what the topic is, or group.
Users will post their questions in whatever group they find, cross post to
numerous groups, if they think it will help them get an answer faster.
--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
Associate Expert
ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
--------------------------------
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"William B. Lurie" > wrote in message
...
> This group is ....windowsxp.basics
>
> There is also a group ....windowsxp.general ....
>
> Can one of the MVPs tell me what the distinction
> might be?
>
> William B. Lurie
>
>

[Ken Blake]

In , William B. Lurie wrote:

> This group is ....windowsxp.basics
>
> There is also a group ....windowsxp.general ....
>
> Can one of the MVPs tell me what the distinction
> might be?



I'm not an MVP, but I can tell you that, regardless of what the
difference was originally intended to be, today there's
essentially no difference between the two; you see the same kinds
of messages in both.

--
Ken Blake
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[Ken Blake]

In , William B. Lurie wrote:

> This group is ....windowsxp.basics
>
> There is also a group ....windowsxp.general ....
>
> Can one of the MVPs tell me what the distinction
> might be?



I'm not an MVP, but I can tell you that, regardless of what the
difference was originally intended to be, today there's
essentially no difference between the two; you see the same kinds
of messages in both.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

..basics is where you can ask basic questions about XP. For example, "In
9x you could do X to get Y. How do you do that in XP?" or "What does a
Computer Administrator do in XP?" As far as I can tell, it's pretty much
identical to .newuser, unless you interpret "new user" to be someone
entirely new to computing, which seems pointless to me since those folks
can't find the newsgroups. Once they do, they are "basic users". :-)

..general is like trying to listen to the piano player in one of those
cheesy western movie bar fights. It's pointless. Once the cattle
stampede starts (think "spam" or "endless bickering among trollers"),
it's time to get out. .help_and_support has turned out to be the same
sort of bar fight, or loud nightclub, if you will. It was *supposed* to
be about the Help and Support Center, but Microsoft just throws the
newsgroups in and sees what happens.

As long as you avoid posting in those two groups, you can get some
decent help without a lot of pain and suffering.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"William B. Lurie" > wrote in
message ...

> This group is ....windowsxp.basics
>
> There is also a group ....windowsxp.general ....
>
> Can one of the MVPs tell me what the distinction
> might be?
>
> William B. Lurie
>
>

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

..basics is where you can ask basic questions about XP. For example, "In
9x you could do X to get Y. How do you do that in XP?" or "What does a
Computer Administrator do in XP?" As far as I can tell, it's pretty much
identical to .newuser, unless you interpret "new user" to be someone
entirely new to computing, which seems pointless to me since those folks
can't find the newsgroups. Once they do, they are "basic users". :-)

..general is like trying to listen to the piano player in one of those
cheesy western movie bar fights. It's pointless. Once the cattle
stampede starts (think "spam" or "endless bickering among trollers"),
it's time to get out. .help_and_support has turned out to be the same
sort of bar fight, or loud nightclub, if you will. It was *supposed* to
be about the Help and Support Center, but Microsoft just throws the
newsgroups in and sees what happens.

As long as you avoid posting in those two groups, you can get some
decent help without a lot of pain and suffering.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



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> This group is ....windowsxp.basics
>
> There is also a group ....windowsxp.general ....
>
> Can one of the MVPs tell me what the distinction
> might be?
>
> William B. Lurie
>
>