On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 20:38:45 +0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote in

Silver Slimer slvrslmr lv.ca wrote:

John Doe wrote:

"Noise". That's an polite way to put it. I would have wrote
"crap from the clueless".

Some UseNet groups are chock-full of Google Groups users.
Google is a blight on UseNet, worse than any other in history.

Google is a blight on everything to be honest. The least
trustworthy company in the history of technology.

With respect to UseNet... Google is a blight because they don't
play by the rules. I couldn't care less how stupid the users are,
ignoring subthreads takes care of that. The problem is worse but
similar to how AOL was. AOL didn't include a reference line, so
ignoring threads meant you still got to see every AOL post. With
Google Groups, the problem is bad formatting. Google's lousy
formatting shreds UseNet threads, especially in groups that are
full of Google users. Besides freedom of speech, UseNet's
threading is what makes it stand out from other forums.

Good summary. And look where AOL is now. Hopefully they will be
joined by Google soon.


And then there are posters who cannot properly introduce prior
authors. Not as big of a deal, but still annoying...

Those are the clueless I referred to.
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