Talk:MSN Groups

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Parts of this sound like advertisement ("another cool feature...", etc.). --Jim Henry | Talk 15:47, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to change it to make it sound like an article. Sorry if I made a mess of the article. • Thorpe •

Seeking feedback on Google Groups article

Hello. I wrote an article about a related topic, Google Groups. As a new Wikipedia writer, I would appreciate any feedback on my article. Please help me by posting your feedback at the Wikipedia:Article Feedback Desk. If you wrote an article and are seeking feedback on it, please post your article at the Article Feedback Desk as well. If you could suggest better ways for me to seek feedback on my article, do leave a note at my talk page. --J.L.W.S. The Special One 12:56, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are SmartGroups and GROU.PS notable enough?

--R4ncid 07:25, 13 June 2007 (UTC) I don't think SmartGroups and GROU.PS are notable enough to deserve links.[reply]

If you agree with me, please remove the links from the article.

(Where exactly are those links????)

I will not do so myself because I am self-banned from editing Microsoft-related articles. To find out more, please read my discussion at Internet Explorer's talk page (especially my concluding response on 24 April). Even though I have lost that dispute, I hope to learn from my mistakes, and would appreciate responses about the dispute on Internet Explorer's talk page.

--J.L.W.S. The Special One 08:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure how {{helpme}} can help you here, you just have to be patient and wait for someone familiar with the content to take a look.--Commander Keane 08:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I often ask similar questions on article talk pages. I think there should be a version of {{helpme}} for article talk pages, for such situations, so I can stick to using {{helpme}} for my user talk.

Do you agree that neither SmartGroups nor GROU.PS is notable? SmartGroups doesn't even have an article. The GROU.PS article has been listed on AFD. In fact, I just removed the SmartGroups link from the Yahoo! Groups article. I'm not removing it from MSN Groups because, as mentioned earlier, after a dispute, I was self-banned from editing Microsoft-related articles. If you can't help, perhaps you should read the dispute (link above). I hope to learn from the dispute even though I lost it. --J.L.W.S. The Special One 08:46, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We use Grou.ps and enjoy it a lot, they claim to have 32000 users on their main page, which makes them quite popular, no? And their Alexa rating is over 100K, which is again, a quite respectable number.. As for SmartGroups, I've first heard about it here, but they have even greater rating at Alexa, over 25K. However, Alexa's credibility is arguable of course. I'd suggest to add them both to See Also section.

== 2/25/07 == Nuttybird2000 07:16, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Today I added a History and a Future section to the MSN Groups page. I added Headers and cleaned the page up, corrected some minor errors and obsolete info, and got rid of the external links to old MSN stuff (such as Chat). Auntie Canuck of Web Design provided me with the History information, as she was an original member of MSN.

To the person who complained about the Popular Groups external links: I don't see the problem. Those are ex-MSN run groups designed to help users create and maintain groups. I have now changed the name of that section to Official MSN Groups.

I also added MSN's CoC & ToU as well as Contact Info to report abuse at MSN.

More to come.

Abuse Email

Whoever changed the abuse email back gave the wrong email abuse@groups.msn.com sends emails to a public group not owned by MSN i have added the correct email again.

Poor Information

Poor information on the future of MSN groups, is this needed? its just an opinion and why add your name after adding content it doesnt benifit the article what so ever? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by R4ncid (talk • contribs) 18:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

== ok i delted the future of msn groups because it's true, it's NOT factual.

i sign my own entries to the article as anyone can.Nuttybird2000 21:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC) ==[reply]

Bullet Points?

This page is just bullet points, should this be more of an article? --R4ncid 18:32, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've decided to fix this. However, I kept features with the bullet points. 68.82.245.213 (talk) 05:49, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notable Groups

Removed kewl Chat spamming the article. Please make sure a group has reason to be Notable. --R4ncid 07:25, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'Group Wars'

I'd like to ask whoever keeps adding that to stop. Your personal opinions are irrevelvant to the article. You're on Wikipedia now, not Groups, and you're detracting from the professional nature of this site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.175.12.17 (talk) 19:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have just checked the logs for the MSN Groups article and YOU are the one who is ALSO warring with others in the article. I have accordingly given you ALL two warnings and if you persist with this warring, you will be BANNED by an Admin! --Visa2007 08:34, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The only thing I've done is deleted the bit about the Groups war. I received no prior warning about editing the page, and I don't believe I need one, since I was editing a POV bullet that wasn't even sourced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.175.12.17 (talk) 01:24, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

MY APOLOGIES! When I checked the history, etc earlier I could have sworn that it showed that you were also spamming/vandalizing, however when I just checked again, this is NOT the case and I sincerely apologise for any upset, etc caused to you. As you stated, you were only reverting the vandalism from the others. Time for an eye test for me I think! I have also just removed the warning from your Talk Page. SORRY! --Visa2007 05:00, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hah, thank you. I'm sorry for any inconvenience I might've caused. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.175.12.17 (talk) 02:15, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Buggy

I am having a lot of difficulty using these groups. First of all, I can't get the MSN Groups homepage to even load. Secondly, when sending a message to a group, I receive an "Hmmm, We Can't Find that Page..." error. Thirdly, about every third page I navigate to is missing its stylesheet, so all I see is the stripped-down HTML minus backgrounds, images, special fonts, etc. What a load of crap! SharkD (talk) 02:36, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

World Groups

There's a link to World Groups on this page but it redirect us to MSN Groups. Duh! 70.81.167.56 (talk) 03:00, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]