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/
if you prefer the old interface.

Theo

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Clare Hall, Cambridge
CB3 9AL, UK http://www.markettos.org.uk/

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/
if you prefer the old interface.

Theo


:-))))

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Theo Markettos wrote:
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/
if you prefer the old interface.

Remember that it is possible to ask for your postings to be removed,
and that is commonly done by trolls so that they can deny what they
said at a later stage. So threads may be a bit patchy.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Janet Baraclough wrote:
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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.

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

(Do you mean www.google/groups?) That's probably because your browser is
looking up www.google, finding it doesn't exist, then looking up
www.google.com. So it all depends on how your system (and perhaps your
ISP's systems) are set up. I can't see how www.groups/google works unless
its something done by your ISP. Using the full domain www.google.com (or
..co.uk) will work anywhere, with any browser.

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.

Agreed. I'm a little perturbed by the way they don't make clear what's a
'Google Group' and what's a 'Usenet Group'. So people have started creating
Google Groups and posting to Usenet about them without realising how
different they are (I would object so much if Google offered a newsfeed of
their own groups).

I'll stop wittering now as this is terribly off topic...

Theo