On Tue, 6 May 2008 09:41:03 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

You must be looking at this thing via something other than Google,
Dan. I guess your newsreader filters out all the copious spam. I
don't know much about newsreaders and i'm not interested enough to
delve into the subject, but from where i'm looking at this place -
groups.google.com - it's quite thoroughly trashed, with regularity
lately.


Not here, using my newsreader (Agent).

As far as I'm concerned, Googlegroups is the best way to search
newsgroup postings, but for actively participating--reading and
answering current messages--it's among the worst possible ways to do
it. In fact, if that were the only available choice, I'd probably give
up on newsgroups.

One of the many reasons that a newsreader is much better than web
access like googlegroups is that a newsreader lets you build filters
to ignore spammers, trolls, and other similar polluters of the
newsgroups.


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Ken Blake
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