"Dan Marotta" wrote in message
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Being new to google groups, I haven't seen such behavior on other
newsgroups. Can anyone tell me how to defeat this annoyance and call
up a link immediately?

First you must understand that rec.aviation.soaring is NOT a Google group. You
are merely using Google Groups as a (terrible) web interface to read a Usenet
group. The best way to access RAS is with a real news client program (you
probably already have one in your computer, perhaps Outlook Express) and with a
free NNTP account at eternal-september.org.

The whole thing takes perhaps ten minutes to set up.

Vaughn