Re: *pressure Google to put Groups back on main page...*

On 2006-08-17, timasmith_at_hotmail.com wrote:
>
> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> On 2006-08-17, timasmith_at_hotmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> >> On 2006-08-17, timasmith_at_hotmail.com wrote:
>> >> > Seriously, who the hell cares about 'Videos' - there must be millions
>> >> > of usenet group users - can we club together and force them to put
>> >> > Groups back on the Google home page - 2 clicks per visit is starting to
>> >> > bug me...
>> >>
>> >> Why do you need a link? Can you not go straight to the group you
>> >> want without going to the main page? (I don't remember when I was
>> >> last there.) Do you not have bookmarks? Or a file with links?
>>
>> [please don't top post]
>
> [ please dont bottom post]

   I only bottom post when it is appropriate. Most of the time, my    responses are interleaved.

>> > I dont want to use bookmarks, I hate menus - too many clicks, too slow
>> > - read up on your HCI. My home is google search and one click is for
>> > google groups.
>>
>> Why would anyone use anything but one's own file for a home page?
>>
>> > Newsreaders are an archaic method - perhaps for retirees who have
>> > nothing better to do with their time but read every single message
>> > posted - lol.
>>
>> You obviously know nothing about newsreaders.
>>
>> Does Google Groups have killfiles?
>>
>> Does Google Groups refrain from showing you articles you have
>> already read?
>
> lol I top post because that is the default for Google groups...

   It certainly is not!

   Your reply goes wherever *you* choose to put it.

> I used a newsreader in the 90s, used to chew up space, add an extra
> window, had to click on all these different groups to find stuff...
> aweful
>
> I hate to break it to you but using a newsreader is old fashioned.

   Fashion is not a criterion for anything other than parting fools    from their money.

   An old-fashioned method is still used because it works better for    what it was designed to do.

> Let me ask you this.
>
> Can you type these two workds into your *newsreader*:
>
> jfs commandlink
>
> will it come back in 0.1 seconds with this:
>
> Your search - jfs commandlink - did not match any documents
> Did you mean: jsf commandlink
>
> and can you click on the suggested link and in 0.05 seconds get the 46
> articles across the entire usenet that reference java server faces
> command link component?

   When I need that, I use Google Groups. That's what it is good for.    It is not good for general reading of newsgroups.

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