On 2013-11-28, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <RCJlu.5$rx5.0@fx05.am4>, > Alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> Perhaps the best option is for everybody to bombard Google >> with bug reports (preferably typed with extra long lines & >> double spaced as that is clearly what they are used to & we >> would not want to upset them would we? ) > > It's pretty clear Google doesn't care about Google Groups. Or, > at least, they don't care that it interacts badly with > newsgroups, and in particular with bidirectional > newsgroup/mailing-list gateways. > > The purpose of Google Groups is to generate traffic to their > site, which it does just fine. Making it behave better with > newsgroups won't change that, so there's no incentive for them > to do so.
The current situation does force a lot of technology-focused people, progammers in particular, into a low opinion of Google. The crappy usenet portal is poor marketing. I wish they'd never bought dejanews. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
