eglamkowski's Journal: google groups

So, ever since google took groups.google.com out of beta, the interface has been completely and utterly unusable, and has only gone down hill over time. Anybody have any recommendations for other web-based usenet reading ... things?

Moo

[ncc74656]

I've only ever used Google Groups to look up old stuff. For everyday reading, trn [sourceforge.net] is teh r0x0r. It requires access to a news server, but any halfway-decent ISP should run one. If not, there are subscription news servers available (keep in mind that Usenet is in many ways the original P2P when evaluating them :-) ).

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[eglamkowski]

I remember the BG years (Before Google) when altavista was king. I'll have to go try them again. I use altavista for music and video searching (google doesn't even HAVE a separate music search!), but I haven't tried their general web search in forever.

In college I used nn for net nets perusal, and then after college I used Netscape Navigator 3 until about 2000 or 2001 solely for its newsreader tool. The reader in IE was unusable, and Netscape 4 was trying very hard to be IE in every detail (even look and

Sure. Un-huh. Yeah, right.

[Degrees]

Now I mostly only need to do usenet at work, to look up questions and answers to technical problems....

Sure, I believe you. [slashdot.org]

;-)

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[eglamkowski]

Hey, note the word "usenet" in there, not google in general :D

Usenet is for researching technical problems. Google is for, um, other things...

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[Degrees]

And here I was, pretty sure alt.binaries.xxx was the first storage requiring a yottabyte....

;-)

Answering a different question than the one asked

[Red Warrior]

:-D

If you use windows, buy Agent [forteinc.com], or use Free Agent [pcanswers.co.uk]. I haven't moved to the 4.2 version and see no purpose in doing so, as my older version rocks. Agent is THE standard against which all others should be measured (and found wanting). If there is a feature you want, it has it. Free Agent isn't quite as featurefull, but it gets the job done.

I use Agrent 3.9, IIRC, but set up like the free agent screen shot (cuz I used that first, and like it). Plenty of free readers, both client and web based, but Agent is ju