In message , Mike Easter
writes:
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GG is bad for the nntp users who converse with GGers because it creates
adverse and non-compliant formatting of the GG messages.

It also encourages (by poor UI design) GGers to post followups to
ancient posts, thinking they are sending a private reply to the poster
and not realising the age of the post.

Once, GG was a very good archiver of newsgroups with a powerful

When it was DejaNews? (-:

advanced search engine which made it useful for accessing newsgroup
information, but now it no longer serves that role so well. Even then,
GG was only useful for that archival search function, not for reading
and posting news messages as if one were using nntp.


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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I don't see the requirement to upset people. ... There's enough to make fun of
without offending. - Ronnie Corbett, in Radio Times 6-12 August 2011.