[WinMac] finding info

John Hanks(jbh[at]bioserver.vsb.usu.edu)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:15:02 -0500

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>OT: I'd really like to figure out how MS's techweb works someday...I can
>usually find the information I want, but it's usually in the 135th document
>retrieved; the docs that their server flags as most relevant are usually
>really far off from what I'm looking for. Until I finally started looking
at
>the 3rd or 4th page of results I used to give up and go to AltaVista or
orther
>search sites to see if someone else figured it out.

I like to search dejanews first (www.dejanews.com). They archive the
msnews.* groups and searches will often reveal a post which lists the
relevent MS Knowledge base articles and their numbers, saving the trek which
you describe. This has been a very valuable source of help with Exchange
problems.

jbh

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