On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:06:42 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> You ought to see what G2 has caused to other NGs and the responses that
> come. The Google Groups team is too vain to respond to the issue and NGs
> are dying as a result (the participants walk away).
>
> As someone said a couple of years ago in a different NG, Google could
> use some toppling. A couple of weeks ago a friend told me about the
> disease Google is taking upon it by employing former Microsoft
> employees. They inherit the same poison. He said they need some kind of
> cool-off period.
Ironically, or perhaps (sinisterly) not ironically, e-mail lists hosted
by google are ok. USENET, per se, may just die -- but the NNTP protocol
lives on at gmane.org.
I like the convenience of being able to post to usenet from my google
account, which, really, is no different then deja-vu aside from being
with a different company.
-Thufir
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