Re: Google Groups and netiquette


A. Sinan Unur wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> > It seems like groups-beta.google.com has undergone a change which
> leads
> > people to not quote anything when replying to a message. Maybe
those
> who
> > dislike when people reply without providing context should better
> call
> > Google's attention to the problem rather than blaming GG posters...
>
> OK, so I finally tried it (please excuse the mailinator.com email
> address, rather than the usual .invalid address I use).
>
> To be able to quote context, one needs to click on Options -> Reply,
> rather than the fancy Reply link below the message which opens an
empty
> textbox.
>
> I will complain to Google Groups regarding this, but I am not sure
how
> seriously they will take it. They are a private company after all,
and
> the more they align the behavior of their interface with the
> expectations of the clueless, the more users they will have.
>
> So, at this point, wholesale killfiling of all Google Groups posts is
> beginning to look like an attractive option.
>
> Sinan.
>
> PS: This is my first and final post from Google Groups, in case you
> were wondering :)

This was brought up in the past few months as a solution for us Google
posters, which you could have seen if you had first "Googled" the
topic. The senior citizens (by experience and ability, not age) of the
group may wish to killfile us, forcing those who want the most high
quality help to use other usenet servers, but I find that I can learn
from almost any post, and I do not find the volume to be too great to
sift through. I hope Google cleans up its act. I think they have
fixed part of the formatting problem at least. There was a free news
server that is no longer free since April. I don't know if there are
any other free ones besides Google at this point.

wana

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