Re: OT--not seeing post

On Jul 19, 11:48 pm, Les Cargill <lcarg...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nil wrote:
On 19 Jul 2007, Les Cargill <lcarg...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
alt.guitar:

Then again, I've kept my own archives of stuff, or have in the
past.

How can you keep your own archives of stuff that you missed the first
time around? Or that weren't of interest then but are now?

Frankly, that just hasn't been a problem. I think part of what
you're missing is the "you can't stick your hand in the same river
twice" nature of things.

What I've archived have been specific solutions. Those, we
don't always need so much. Most of those these days are on various
driver download pages.


I like Google Groups (when it works) for several reasons:

1) It's portable. I can access it from home, work, my girlfriend's
place or wherever without having to download anything whether it be a
reader or messages. And all the topics I'm watching are still marked.

2) The ability to quickly and easily search archives. If I have a
question about something where I want some opinions, I search news
groups first. Sure, I often have to wade through a bunch of crap, but
at least I can read some discussion about whatever it is I want to
know about rather than going to some place like Harmony Central. At
review sites, people write a review and, even if they write something
that is misleading or incorrect, it's ignored with no correction made
where, on news groups, people will jump all over someone who writes
something that is BS.

3) I like the message board style layout. I can quickly skim down a
thread of messages without having to open a bunch of separate messages
one at a time.

Google Groups sure as hell isn't perfect (as evidenced by the multiple
long outages and lack of some sort of kill file), but I much prefer it
over a conventional news reader.

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