Why the complaints about Google Usenet ?  [telecom]

Why the complaints about Google Usenet ? [telecom]

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Why the complaints about Google Usenet ? [telecom] hancock4 07-04-2008
Posted by Who Me? on July 4, 2008, 5:10 pm
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> Also, there's been talk about loss of Usenet access by some ISPs.
> Pulling such acess seems very odd to me since many people still use
> Usenet. I wonder if there's confusion because certain risque groups
> are being pulled, but only those groups.
>

Not as many users as you might imagine, apparently.

Some ISPs are deciding that selective group screening isn't worth the
hassle, no matter how minor, and are, in fact, dropping Usenet access
altogether.

Most ISPs see Usenet support as a money pit. It certainly can't be
identified as a profit center.

Once again, the almighty dollar wins out........with a little help from some
blue noses!


Pure Networks
Posted by Garrett Wollman on July 4, 2008, 5:11 pm
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>A number of Usenet posters have made very nasty complaints about
>Google Groups, a service where many people, including me, post to
>Usenet. I don't understand why. Could someone explain it?

It has a *horrible* user interface, doesn't support KILL files, and
makes a hash of quoted articles in replies. Plus, they don't do a
wonderful job in keeping their service from being used to post spam.
And every nine months ago, a different group of new Google hires takes
over maintenance of it and breaks it in new and exciting ways.

As an occasional-use, read-only interface it is barely tolerable. For
regular use, it is orders of magnitude worse than the newsreaders of
fifteen or twenty years ago. It's a pity they're the only ones with
the historical archives (assuming you can get to them -- the indexing
of older articles has been spotty at times).

It is clear that Google doesn't really care about this service.

-GAWollman

--
Garrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are
wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry
Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness


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