"Goldenshuttle" wrote:

Franc, I must say that people like you make Google Groups work 2 its
full potential..

And Google Groups makes usenet (what you're *actually* reading) suck
royally. Google Groups has a broken interface. On usenet it's
customary to quote what you are replying to; on Google Groups you have
to hit "options" then "reply" to do this, rather than use the obvious
"reply" button. Quote, then trim away any excess, then put your reply
below what you've quoted (or intersperse reply and quoting, if
appropriate). This makes it easy to follow the conversation,
especially when returning to a thread you've half-read before and
you're only looking at new posts (Google Groups can't do this at all,
it just shows you the whole thread, but proper newsreader software can
do this and more).

You can access the same groups faster and more flexibly using a
dedicated usenet client, rather than Google's broken web interface. A
web search for "usenet" or "newsgroups" should get you started.


Tim
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