Frank said:

FireBrick wrote:
Sure hope you guys can suggest some helpful question/answer type forums
as Comcrap is dropping Newsgroups in a few days.

So the great help I've gotten from this newsgroups will be unavailable.

Any free 'gardening forums' you guys can suggest?

You gals also...don't want to sound....non PC.

I often use Google groups.

Why? G2 sucks big time.

- compared to a newsreader, G2's interface is terrible

- G2 provides no filtering of all of the G2 sourced spam & hipcrime &
anonymized trolls

- G2's topic threading is very poor - nonexistent

- G2 doesn't carry a lot of useful usenet groups

- because there's so much G2 sourced spam & hipcrime & other
undesirables, many people filter /all/ G2 posters, meaning that many of
the people who could help with a problem don't even see a GGer's post

- G2 tends to induce some poor posting practices, such as top posting
and/or untrimmed bottom posting

- G2 exposes the user's connectivity IP and as well as a good email
address in the From, which bothers those with privacy concerns

- G2 doesn't provide an autosig or autosigtrimming function

Screw Google Groups. When they took over the DejaNews archive, that was a
good thing. When they tried to make it look like /they/ were the end-all of
USENET, and started a web portal (trying to make it look like they created
all of the groups, when in fact they're simply a web-portal to a protocol
that's been around longer than the www) they blew it.
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Eggs

-Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than standing in a
garage makes you a car.