Just this Friday, Stuf4 puzzled about:

Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on my
end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say, a
decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will
join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers.

Cross-posting in GG was removed (or at least made difficult) as a spam
control measure, AIUI. I use GG a lot when I'm not at the home
computer, and have since shortly after the Deja News purchase (and so
for at least 2 "New Style" rollouts). It works pretty well, except
when somebody makes showing the top-of-post the default instead of
showing the unquoted parts as the default. The "overview" option is
very useful to me, although once you click on an individual post you
are no longer in overview. The efficacy of the search tools sometimes
varies, but if you can find the tick mark on the right side of the
"ordinary" search box, things improve.

/dps

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"I'm glad unicorns don't ever need upgrades."
"We are as up as it is possible to get graded!"
_Phoebe and Her Unicorn_, 2016.05.15