Re: Apology

Cyberserf wrote:
On Apr 23, 11:49 pm, Guncho <cgun...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 23, 10:41 pm, Rick N. Backer <ken.wil...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 23 Apr 2007 15:25:24 -0700, Guncho <cgun...@xxxxxxxxxxx> did
courageously avow:
On Apr 23, 6:18 pm, The Repair Guy <repairguy1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Guncho <cgun...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You don't use a newsreader. You use
Google groups. HTH.
It's what I use to read the newsgroups so.....
It's my news group reader or my newsreader.
What program do you use to view Google
groups? Which "newsreader", I mean?
Agent? Gravity? Xnews?
www.google.com
That's a URL, champ.
The Repair Guy
repairguy1993 dot netfirms dot com
That's how I read newsgroups.
http://groups.google.com/
Are you seriously that obtuse?
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I read newsgroups through google.

newsgroup read
news read
news reader
Newsreader!

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I with you on this one Chris...these guys are splitting pubes,
presumably in an effort to get your goat...surely they know better.
However, in case they are genuine in their collective ignorance ...let
me offer the following:


Collective ignorance? Right...


I use Google Groups as well and here's how I would describe
it...Google has their own ActiveX/HTML/Java (?) reader/editor/archive
management software embedded in the access page


It's HTML. It's *slow* enough to be Java, but I'm pretty sure it's just regular old HTML.


...similar to the software used on many "discussion websites". With regards to Usenet, it does pretty much everything that a program like
Fortes Agent would,


Well...

Except for: Filters/killfiles, proper 3-pane display, offline reading of groups, normal browsing of just the headers, sorting the headers by your own choice of Subject/Sender/Date, expanded threads by default, the ability to 'watch' threads as well as ignore entire threads at the click of a button, labelling threads by importance, creation of local folders to save posts for later reference, sent items automatically saved...

Oh, and those of us using Thunderbird also have our email clients running all the time in the same program, something which AFAICT Google Groups will never be able to offer ;-) Oh, and we don't have to waste bandwidth downloading 'sponsored links' on every slow-loading page of HTML code.


(Yo, pedants...Web Browsers are not NewsReaders)


That would be correct.


It uses any Browser and, when you log on, you get the same views,
the same subscribed groups and the same interface


And this is meant to be a good thing? The Google Groups interface is fercking HORRIBLE. It's saving grace feature wise is it's archive going all the way back to 1981.


HTH.


Andy.
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