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Thu, Jan 25, 2007

Usenet and Google

Posted at 10:42 pm MST to Technology

Before there was the Web, there was Usenet: a vast set of online discussion groups. I've been following some of them fro more than 20 years. In recent years I have used Google Groups (they bought out DejaNews, which was a much more uasable service), but I think I may need to look for an alternative. Google's latest re-design of group access seems to be designed to make Usenet unusable.

This is extremely annoying. Things were fine and perfectly readable two days ago. I am tired of trying to re-configure their misbegotten layout into something readable in my browser on Linux. I have already sent them an email about the problem.

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