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filipivich writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" on Mon, 8 Oct 2018
17:56:26 +0100 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
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- but in such a way that the person finding them doesn't realise they're
a newsgroup post, in fact in all likelihood doesn't know what usenet is.
They've also made the user interface in such a way that anyone
attempting to respond to such a posting (a) doesn't realise the posting
is ten or twenty years old (b) thinks they're responding with a private
email to the original poster, rather than a post to a newsgroup. This
seems to be particularly the case for people with @gmail addresses: I'm
not saying anything about such people, more that Google seem to have set
things up such that they in particular are liable to be misled in this
way.

Google has its own standards of what is "good" and useful.

Yes, but they've failed in this case, even if their aim was to in some
way benefit themselves: I can't see how it benefits even Google to have
lots of @gmail users misled into posting replies to decades-old posts,
into newsgroups they probably don't know exist and certainly won't see
followups in.
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