Does *anyone* like the Google Groups interface for RBM?

Google does many things very well, but their approach to Usenet news
readers is just awful.

J.

On Mar 10, 6:27*pm, " wrote:
Google does many things very well, but their approach to Usenet news
readers is just awful.

J.

Why don't you design and market a your approach.
Maybe the world will beat a path to your door.
ABS

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:27:58 -0700, wrote:

Google does many things very well, but their approach to Usenet news
readers is just awful.

Is that why you use it to post to Usenet?


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aka Jay Bollyn wrote:
Google does many things very well, but their approach to Usenet news
readers is just awful.

Indeed.

A real newsfeed and dedicated newsreader (or decent email program such
as Thunderbird) is much better.

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aka Alan B. Stew wrote:
On Mar 10, 6:27 pm, " wrote:
Google does many things very well, but their approach to Usenet news
readers is just awful.

J.

Why don't you design and market a your approach.
Maybe the world will beat a path to your door.
ABS

To state the obvious, Google is popular primarily for their search
engine, not the web to Usenet interface.

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jbollyn wrote:

Google does many things very well, but their approach to Usenet news
readers is just awful.

Most (not all) of the objections I have had to it were fixable by
using "topic list" and "view as tree" and "fixed font" settings. And
then doing it again every time I clear out the cookie jar.

"Rate this post" seems pointless at best. And the default web-forums-
style presentation is atrocious. But in my preferred configuration, I
like it much better than forums and Yahoo Groups. And I like the fact
that it is accessible from any computer I have access to, and I don't
have to use a clunky shell account.

Chalo

Chalo Colina wrote:
jbollyn wrote:
Google does many things very well, but their approach to Usenet news
readers is just awful.

Most (not all) of the objections I have had to it were fixable by
using "topic list" and "view as tree" and "fixed font" settings. And
then doing it again every time I clear out the cookie jar.

"Rate this post" seems pointless at best. And the default web-forums-
style presentation is atrocious. But in my preferred configuration, I
like it much better than forums and Yahoo Groups. And I like the fact
that it is accessible from any computer I have access to, and I don't
have to use a clunky shell account.

Google thinks you are a spammer if you post too much, and freezes the
account for a few hours. This makes it hard to participate in flame wars.

Google also refuses to honor the signature separator and deletes blank
lines at times, mashing stuff together.

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On Mar 10, 10:27*pm, " wrote:
Google does many things very well, but their approach to Usenet news
readers is just awful.

J.

I tried a couple real newsreaders, and like the GG interface more. I
like the forum approach for whatever reason.

Most (not all) of the objections I have had to it were
fixable by using "topic list" and "view as tree" and
"fixed font" settings.

=v= In fact that's how DejaNews originally had it, before
Google acquired them, wrote the worse interface, and made
it the default.

=v= It blows my mind that Google is completely incompetent
about spam in this realm, too.
_Jym_

Jym Dyer wrote:

Chalo wrote:

Most (not all) of the objections I have had to it were
fixable by using "topic list" and "view as tree" and
"fixed font" settings.

=v= In fact that's how DejaNews originally had it, before
Google acquired them, wrote the worse interface, and made
it the default.

I remember. When I started using Google Groups, they hadn't done
anything to functionally change the Deja interface yet. Every time
they changed anything, it was for the worse. It still is,
unfortunately.

=v= It blows my mind that Google is completely incompetent
about spam in this realm, too.

You know, most things about Google seem to be slipping. A _lot_ more
of my real email winds up in the Gmail spam bucket lately, and
Google's Boolean and other enhanced search functions don't work right
anymore. Phrase searching and hyphenated searching are completely
broken. It makes things a lot harder to find in an ever larger and
increasingly crap-clogged web.

On the other hand, Google Maps just keeps getting better. I can't
think of much else that is noticeably improving in Goo-world,
though.

Chalo