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axel
I disagree, Google Groups is superior - to my mind anyway - in the
follwing ways. It's a Web Interface and so may be accessed through
most corporate firewalls which typically block anything except port 80,
Why should I have to downgrade in order to accommodate people
constrained by their own or their company's restrictions?
I don't want to use a web interface to Usenet... I am perfectly
happy with a dedicated text based newsreader which in conjunction
with the screen utility means I can move between machines in my
house (or even externally) keeping the same session active, without
any adverts or other rubbish popping up (unless posted to the groups
I read of course, and then a quick 'TAB' moves me on).
As for a 'normal' person, well, my guess is that the current percentage
of posting from google groups compares close enough to equitably with
other news reader software to make it 'normal', so unfortunately you
will probably just have to get used to it.
No, I have no intention of getting used to an inferior system.
And so I support every hint to people using Google that they
should follow Usenet and not Google conventions.
Axel