Janet Baraclough wrote:
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from Theo Markettos contains
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
You don't need to pay anything, join anything, sign up for
anything
or open any kind of account to explore the archive. Go to

www.groups/google

I think you mean:
http://groups.google.com/
or
http://groups.google.co.uk/

Thanks for your assistance to other readers. I use a very old
bookmark. However, on my browser, www.groups/google also does the
business.

if you prefer the old interface.

Imho the old version with fewer bells and whistles is fine for a
new
user wanting to search the archives. On the beta version, the
archive
search facility is no better, but the thread -compilation is
inferior.

If you want to use it to reply, you have at all costs to avoid
hitting Reply, or your message will appear without context, to
everybody's inconvenience. To get a proper reply form with quoted
text you need to go through Show Options and use the Reply there.
You can then edit the quoted text if you want to, as on a real
newsreader.

It also tells you you've posted a new topic when you've only posted a
reply. Why they can't be bothered to fix such simple things fills me
with foreboding. I think it was designed by somebody who doesn't
actually use Usenet: like a car designed by somebody who's never been
in one.

--
Mike.