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Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader

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On 05/20/11 09:43 AM, Default User wrote:
>
> I still maintain that there are only two requirements for working on the
> Google Groups project:
>
> 1. Be an incompetent software engineer
> 2. Be completely ignorant of usenet
>
> It's not like it's some cutting edge technology with no prior art. Dozens
> (probably hundreds) of newsreaders have been written over the years, some
> with functioning web interfaces. Why GG can't get basic things right is a
> mystery.

Not really a mystery.

Those of us who choose to use a conventional service don't generate any 
revenue opportunities for Google.  So they have no interest in us and 
would probably prefer we give up and use their sociopathic interface.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Spanky <Spankme@noway.com> - 2011-05-18 17:46 -0500
  Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-05-18 19:38 -0400
    Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-19 11:42 +1200
    Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-05-18 17:19 -0700
      Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2011-05-19 14:07 -0700
        Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-20 09:14 +1200
      Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-19 16:43 -0500
        Re: Dear Janus - Get a newsreader Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-20 09:54 +1200

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