Mainstream status quo damage-control that's running amuck/amock.

This is exactly what those pesky MIB spooks and moles did to Usenet as
of lately, by way of adding ?hl=en&lnk=rgh or as little as ?lnk=rgh to
the end of a given GOOGLE Usenet page is what keeps one of their "Sort
by date" features from functioning, of which makes it all that more
difficult for us few and far between honest folks to reply on behalf
of those most recent contributions to our topics or of those other
topics in which we've contributed. No wonder that I've been missing
out on so many of those topic contributors that seems to not exist,
but in fact did exist.

This is where I had somewhat need-to-know learned of this supposed
bug, that's not really a bug if you know what I mean.

Google Groups Guide /
Aha! Bug identified! Try this:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/topics?hl=en
This gives the sci.math topic list. Bug exists in all threads you
see.
If you click on any of the groups in "related groups", these groups
also have the bad behavior.

Now try this:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/topics
I.e., the same link as above, but with the "hl=en" attribute removed
from the URL. The problem goes away; and also goes away from of the
groups you jump to via "related groups".

My Guess: This attribute used to be always present in URLs from
Google, but at some point it was only added if the referring URL
included it. Now it causes buggy behavior.

The Fix: Remove the "?hl=en" attribute from your all shortcuts. (Or
other similar attribute if your native language is not english).

Cheers - Chas
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"?hl=en?scoring=d&hl=en"

"so just removing all this garbage fixes the problem." or rather
simply removing as little as anything that comes after the basic topic
ID from a given GOOGLE Usenet page, or from whatever reply you're in
the process of contributing, such as removing ?lnk=rgh is also good to
go.

BTW, lord all-knowing GOOGLE/NOVA and of their wizardly minions know
exactly this kind of computer stuff forwards and backwards, so it's no
such freaking accident or "bug" by any standards that you or I can
imagine, more like fully MI5/NSA/CIA and/or MIB intentional.
- Brad Guth -