Re: Google Groups

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>

Subject: Re: Google Groups

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 15:26:56 -0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <slu9o0$62c$2@dont-email.me>

Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> wrote:

I just wanted to say that this new group still isn't being carried by

Google Groups. This is bad for giving an easy way to use the group from

the web, but it is good because a huge amount of Usenet spam comes from

Google Groups, so this group should be relatively spam free.

Jason, Usenet is not enjoyable using the Google Groups Web interface.

Google abandoned maintaining it years ago. The indexing broke a very

long time ago so that's not even a reason to use it. Given that I guess

Gemini is somewhat the antithesis of Google if there's an emphasis on

privacy, maybe it cannot be seriously discussed via a Web interface.

I suggest it's better to encourage someone to discover Usenet via a

newsreader and subscribing to a News site than the Web, even if it means

using a desktop computer and not an Android or iPhone.

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