On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:45:39 -0400, Andrew Gideon
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:25:32 +0000, Larry Dighera wrote:

But I find reading their archive of Usenet article indispensable

I still miss Dejanews.

Definitely.

It didn't go back as far (but then neither did
Google at first), but I found the query language easier to use.

I guess the spam-bot e-mail address harvesters have necessitated a lot
of changes too, but I liked DejaNews the best, because you could
search on IP addresses and other article headers.


Deajagoogle also makes it harder to get the proper threaded display, and
it seems to skip some headers (ie. Path).

Right. The original GoogleGroups would show the number of lines for
each article, left the '' in the subject lines, and was far
superior to the current GoogleGroups interface. But, hey, we've got
targeted advertising now. :-(

I really wish program developers would take the time to consult with
actual users of the data before imposing their dogma on users. It's
like Microsoft's decision to omit the mandatory visit to news.newusers
newsgroup from Outlook's news-reader. That convention was part of
every UNIX news-reader I ever saw, but Microsoft just dumped it
without consideration of the consequences. Oh well, monopolies don't
need to be considerate, and provide what the marketplace wants. When
you're the only game in town, you don't have to listen to anyone.