Is the word "Helper" in a class name a code smell?

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Published on 2010-03-15T10:30:46Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 10:39 UTC
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We seems to be abstracting a lot of logic way from web pages and creating "helper" classes. Sadly, these classes are all sounding the same, e.g

ADHelper, (Active Directory) AuthenicationHelper, SharePointHelper

Do other people have a large number of classes with this naming convention?

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