Managing Google Groups headaches

[Travis Griggs]

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> On Nov 28, 2013, at 7:40, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/28/2013 08:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Which is easier, fiddling around with your setup so you can post
>> reasonably on Google Groups, or just getting a better client? With
>> your setup, you have to drop out to another editor and press F9 for it
>> to work. With pretty much any other newsreader on the planet, this
>> works straight off, no setup necessary.
>> 
>> I'm still going to advise people to stop using buggy rubbish.
> 
> My opinion is that the Python list should dump the Usenet tie-in and
> just go straight e-mail.  Python is the only list I'm on that has a
> usenet gateway.
> 
> I used to love usenet back in the day, but in the present internet
> climate makes it unworkable, though I concede that e-mail is reaching
> the end of its usefulness as well.
> 
> I wouldn't oppose a dual e-mail list and web-based forum system,
> provided the forum system supported threaded conversations in a clean
> and useful way (maybe like google wave used to).
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Here! Here! Well said and amen. My thoughts exactly.