Obnoxious postings from Google Groups (was: datetime issue)

[Roy Smith]

In article 
<6c732de0-b10f-4d40-853c-f62682970117 at rg9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
 alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 16, 11:18 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Using Google Groups for posting to Usenet has been a bad idea for a long
> > time, but now it just seems to be a sure recipe for annoying the rest of
> > us. Again, not something you have much control over, except to stop
> > using Google Groups.
> 
> Agreed. While it was painful but usable in its previous form, the "new
> Groups" is an incomprehensible mess of pointlessness and shittery.
> It's still possible to use the old theme for the time being, which
> does avoid the double-up posts, but it's pretty clear Google aren't
> listening to any feedback about Groups whatsoever.
> 
> I've really NFI why they bought DejaNews only to turn it into such a
> broken service.

They didn't buy the service.  They bought the data.  Well, they really 
bought both, but the data is all they wanted.