In article >,
Michael Plant > wrote:

> I use a usenet client, not Google groups. It's clean and to the point.
> Highly recommended, if possible. It's also right up to the minute, unlike
> the web-based portals such as Google, etc. Perhaps in China you don't have
> the same wonderful resources that glut our American life, but still and all,
> context helps, however you are able to achieve it.

I am constantly amazed and infuriated by users
of Google's usenet interface. It happens in most
groups I subscribe to; you open a message, and
are confronted with, for example, ONLY these
words:

'I know. I don't happen to use them, but if I did,
I would certainly add the Barton 3 beforehand.'


It's crazy-making............................................ .p*