cool! what's the asterisk with the dead xml group?

I think a lot of us non-C++ non-wizards have been waiting for these (as well as for the poll to change ;-)... I'll spread the good word over at Builder Buzz & /.

Kovu -- that's not a dead group, it's a hierarchy (`*' is a regular expression meaning `anything'). So in the future there may end up being netscape.public.dev.xml.musicml, netscape.public.dev.xml.chessml, netscape.public.dev.xml.chemml, etc.

(Moz actually should have put a `.' before the `*', but never mind.)

Actually, what has been done is, there was an existing netscape.dev.xml group, and it will be moved to netscape.public.dev.xml . They have to get the messages moved over before they can kill the old one and create the new one I think.

i just checked and the new groups are already in the archives over at deja.com (dejanews for us old-timers).