OT what's with microsoft.public.office?

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Sorry to be off-topic, but wondering what's with microsoft.public.office.
It's filled with spam and looks like it's not being monitored or maintained.
At least microsoft.public.excel looks OK.
 
Actually, I shouldn't have said microsoft.public.office was filled with
spam, it just has a little bit--even that's too much, tho! I should have
said microsoft.public.shortcutbar--that IS filled with spam.

All this by way of saying "never mind my post"
 
I connect directly to the MSNewsservers. I can see by your headers that you
don't.

I saw lots of newsgroups under ms.public.office--you may want to be more
specific. But I didn't see any ms.public.shortcutbar on the MS Newsservers.

Maybe the spam is just on your ISP's newsservers.

You may want to connect directly to the MS Servers:

Saved from a previous post:

If you have Outlook Express installed, try clicking on these links (or copy and
paste into MSIE).

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel.setup
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel.misc
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel.newusers
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.excel.programming

(and a few more for MSWord)
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.word97vba
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.newusers
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.vba.addins
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.vba.beginners
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.vba.customization
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.vba.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.vba.userforms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.word.word6-7macros

(You can always connect to more later)

Here are some links that explain it better:

Chip Pearson has some notes written by Leonard Meads at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DirectConnect.htm

David McRitchie's notes at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlnews.htm
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/oe6.htm
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/oe6nws01.htm

Tushar Mehta's notes at:
http://www.tushar-mehta.com/misc_tutorials/oe_ng/index.htm

And if you're looking for old posts:

Or you can use google (maybe a few hours behind) to search for stuff you've
posted (and find the replies, too)

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:*Excel*&num=100

Ron de Bruin has an excel addin that you may like:
http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm
 
I use verizon's newsgroups--maybe that's the problem. I'll try what you
suggest. Thanks!
 
Dave, I just followed up on some of the info you gave here, and I'm amazed
at the difference between ms.public.office on the Verizon newsgroup and on
msn. It's like a different world!!! Many thanks!!
 
MS does a nice job deleting spam.
Dave, I just followed up on some of the info you gave here, and I'm amazed
at the difference between ms.public.office on the Verizon newsgroup and on
msn. It's like a different world!!! Many thanks!!
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