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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 04:29:43 +1100
Subject: Re: Managing Google Groups headaches
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> The purpose of Google Groups is to generate traffic to their site, which
> it does just fine.  Making it behave better with newsgroups won't change
> that, so there's no incentive for them to do so.

Which is why the solution is to tell people to get off it. So long as
people still use it, Google has no incentive to make it better.

ChrisA