Phisherman wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:37:09 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote:

In article ,
aemeijers wrote:


Of course, this will make it even harder for the newbies to understand
that Usenet is not Google Groups, since that is what most regulars on a
budget will end up using.

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aem sends...
And as has been mentioned, Google's interface is god awful. I don't know
why anyone would actually choose to use it.


Maybe because it is free? I am a long-term Usenet user and not about
to start paying for it after AT&T (supposedly) pulls the Usenet plug
in 2 weeks. AT&T has a lot of customers, I'm sure there will be users
that stop using Usenet.

You or they don't happen to pay for it unless you happened to be
interested in binary groups. There are a number of free text only servers.