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[rurpy at yahoo.com]

On 11/01/2012 06:09 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:> On 2012-10-31, rurpy at yahoo.com <rurpy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On 10/31/2012 09:11 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:> On 2012-09-16, ???????? ?????? <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Iam positng via google groups using chrome, thats all i know.
>>> 
>>> Learn something else.  Google Groups is seriously and permanently
>>> broken, and all posts from Google Groups are filtered out and ignored
>>> by many people (including myself -- I only saw this because somebody
>>> else replied to it).
>>
>> Feel free to filter whatever you want but be aware than in 
>> doing so you risk missing information that could help you
>> avoid disseminating erroneous info.  Of course, carrying out
>> some kind of private war against Google Groups may be more
>> important to you than that... 
> 
> Based on past experience, the chances of useful information being
> posted via Google Groups is very small.  The benefit of avoiding all
> the spam and garbage the comes from that source is more than worth the
> small risk of missing something worthwhile.
> 
> Note that I'm _not_ talking about people posting to the mailing list
> using Gmail -- only people posting via the Google Groups web UI.

Your experience is that most GG posts are junk but not 
most Gmail posts.  And yet someone else posted that Gmail 
posts are the junk ones.  So I wonder how accurate these 
evaluations are.

In either case, while there has been some spam and garbage
posts in c.l.p in the past, I haven't seen very many lately.  
And even in the past, they seemed pretty recognizable to me 
and easily skipped over.

As for stupid questions, undesired formatting etc, I seldom
look at the message headers so I never noticed whether they 
are mostly from GG or Gmail.  But then again I never found 
it hard to glance at a post and move on if I didn't want to 
read it.  YMMV.