On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 5:01:55 AM UTC-10, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
> On 7/30/2014 11:46 AM, sf wrote:
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> > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:34:38 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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> > > wrote:
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> >> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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> >>> On 7/29/2014 2:34 PM, jmcquown wrote:
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> >>>> On 7/29/2014 4:53 PM, dsi1 wrote:
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> >>>>> What problem are you having with Google Groups? Freaking hating a
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> >>>>> program seems to be an
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> >>>>> overreaction.
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> >>>> Google Groups is atrocious. It appears to have been created as an
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> >>>> afterthought. There is no method for blocking spam (the majority of
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> >>>> which seems to come from people with gmail accounts). Sure, you can
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> >>>> report them; fat lot of good it will do. The [lack of] formatting
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> >>>> sucks; the line spacing if you post a reply to someone who uses GG is
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> >>>> annoying as hell. How's that for starters?
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> >>>> Jill
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> >>> Spam has been a part of the Usenet long before GG. Google ain't to blame.
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> >>> You can make complaints to the poster's HTTP server or Google Groups but
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> >>> why would you want to spend your time in such a way? The formatting
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> >>> problem is annoying but the sheer entertainment value of folks blowing
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> >>> their tops over this small thing makes it all worthwhile. (-:
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> >> Yes but if you can filter it, you don't see it.
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> > Unfiltered spam is one of the many reasons why I hate Google's usenet
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> > groups. If they can filter spam from their email, they should be able
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> > to filter it from usenet too - but they don't.
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> Usenet gives them no financial incentive to do so, since it isn't
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> owned by anyone. With no responsible party, there's no interest in
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> doing anything to change the Usenet experience. And *that*, boys and
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> girls, is the real reason most ISPs dumped Usenet support. Unlike the
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> WWW, Usenet makes no money for anyone. Better to push people onto the
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> Web, where they can pay for their experiences via advertising and data
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> scraping.

This certainly sounds reasonable and true. Hopefully, the boys and girls can live with that reality.