On 19 Mar 2008 22:38:01 GMT, "Default User"
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> wrote:
>David T. Bilek wrote:
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>> On 19 Mar 2008 17:00:11 GMT, "Default User" <defaultuserbr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
>> > Charlton Wilbur wrote:
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>> >
>> >> Time to globally plonk Google Groups again, methinks.
>> >
>> > Haven't seen any of this. Either news.individual.net is getting it,
>> > or my own filter set is.
>> >
>>
>> Ditto; I'm not seeing it but it's because of my filters. Which works
>> for me. My concern would be new readers will not take the time to
>> create filters so that they can get to know the newsgroup. No new
>> readers is a recipe for a dwindling to extinction forum.
>>
>> Of course I'm not sure that usenet gets any new readers anyway.
>
>Well, new users are coming in through, you guessed it, Google Groups.
>If Google would shut the doors on the spammers, they'd be a positive
>force. As it is, they just don't care, so it's eroding things. New
>users that start with GG find some groups (many have no realization of
>the difference between a Google forum and usenet groups) polluted with
>spam and nothing they can do, so they leave.
>
>We get lots of legitimate new users via GG in the programming groups.
>It's the usenet method of choice for India and China.
But . . . but . . . it's so *broken*!? How can anybody stand to
do more than very occasional skimming with that interface?
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Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank]
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