On 2013-12-02, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > 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.
It's probably hard to even visualize. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
