OT: Couple of google groups questions

[Jules Richardson]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 12:53 -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
> > Now google seem to be doing everything they can to turn it into just
> > another web forum, which is a little alarming to me as it seems too
> > important a resource for that to happen to it. Hence I'm just curious as
> 
> Nobody uses Usenet any more (much to my own personal chagrin as I found it
> very useful for many things, as I'm sure others did/do).

Not in my experience - I still find it really useful and a really quick
way to get answers for things. Plus of course it means I don't have to
be a member of six million different web forums, which is useful :)

It's mainly the archive I'm interested in though as it's a useful tool
for finding answers to questions that others have asked in the past.
It'd seem a shame to lose that because Google are totally inept when it
comes to writing a web interface :-( 

I just get pissed off when useful archives of information get lost or
rendered difficult to use in the name of progress, resulting in people
having to reinvent the wheel. All seems rather pointless :-(

usenet is very much alive and well though, I assure you!

cheers

Jules