On Jul 1, 5:34*am, "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
There are other free or low cost news
servers availible. news:alt.free.newsservers is a newgroup that
discusses these servers.

Most of us never notice this anyway. Because of the low signal to noise ratio
(even for UseNet) we have all GoogleGroups postings go directly to the trash.


People who filter out googlegroups are usually low content dinosaurs
for whom the vi vs. emacs wars are still a recent concern. I had hoped
that this H8 teh googlegroupers movement would have died along with
"Blinky the Shark." Oh well.