In article <mailman.3461.1385989809.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote:
> 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. If you think, "The set of people who are still trying to use usenet groups for anything serious" is a lot of people, you don't understand the scale on which Google operates. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
