From: Adam Funk on
On 2009-12-28, Adam Funk wrote:

> On 2009-12-28, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
>> On Dec 28, 5:01 am, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...(a)csuohio.edu> wrote:
>
>>> It's almost certainly a problem with Google Groups.  If
>>> Peter would break down and get a decent news client, he'd
>>> not have the problem.
>>
>> Yet somehow Google Groups managed to show the letters a few minutes
>> later.
>>
>> None of the newsgroup-snobs has ever explained what's _wrong_ with
>> google groups.
>
> Not true. You just don't like the explanations.
>
> http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=120829004500
>
> http://improve-usenet.org/

I found a better copy of the site (the original one, whose owner died
suddenly in February 2009, seems to be missing a lot of material).

http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/underlying.html


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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting.
Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)?
From: António Marques on
Adam Funk wrote (11-01-2010 21:10):
> On 2009-12-28, Adam Funk wrote:
>
>> On 2009-12-28, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 28, 5:01 am, "Brian M. Scott"<b.sc...(a)csuohio.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>> It's almost certainly a problem with Google Groups. If
>>>> Peter would break down and get a decent news client, he'd
>>>> not have the problem.
>>>
>>> Yet somehow Google Groups managed to show the letters a few minutes
>>> later.
>>>
>>> None of the newsgroup-snobs has ever explained what's _wrong_ with
>>> google groups.
>>
>> Not true. You just don't like the explanations.
>>
>> http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=120829004500
>>
>> http://improve-usenet.org/
>
> I found a better copy of the site (the original one, whose owner died
> suddenly in February 2009, seems to be missing a lot of material).
>
> http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/underlying.html

This one is as puny as the other. It's ridiculous that people wishing to
belittle those using google groups should make such a poor job of it.
From: Richard Herring on
In message
<0372383b-c748-419e-bc66-2d582d80af56(a)26g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,
DKleinecke <dkleinecke(a)gmail.com> writes
>
>You might consider the ability to upload entire files to a group an
>advantage of Google groups.

There are non-Google news clients that can't?

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Richard Herring