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ATTN: Google Groups now improving! (was: google now useless)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- YES! Google has undergone some "interesting" transformations since they lost the most important election in human history on that happy fateful Tuesday November 2nd, 2004 anno Domini. But lately things are greatly and notably improving, read on... Beginning about December 1, 2004, the local domain Google "Groups" went to hell in a handbasket. Longer messages were being severely truncated, all embedded links, message id's and email addys broken with a "...", the number of "hits" cut down to less than one-third of what's actually still in the archives (accessible on the foreign-domain servers), and monospaced plain text messages were being forced into non-monospaced text (like Times Roman) which made messages look like gobbledygook, especially messages with charts or ascii art, etc. Truly, Google went down the post-election toilet as fast as you can say "Beta" Groups totally sucked! Apparently, however, because Google quickly received so many millions of furious complaints over their draconian censorship of the public newsgroup archives (with messages dating back to 1981, with early messages post-dated from 1979), Google has begun to back away from their anti-freespeech bitterness, and have restored some of the previous functionality to the local domain Groups servers. At least at this writing March 15, 2005, it now appears that longer archived messages are no longer being truncated, which in and of itself is a VERY encouraging sign (that was a BIG issue). &Google now offers the choice of reading messages in monospaced text--another very promising sign that Google realized that they had gone too far over the line with their censorship, and corporate profits could begin to be in jeopardy had Google chosen to ignore their millions of "Groups" users. These, shall we say RE-improvements of the google Groups should come as quite a relief for the whole worldwide usenet newsgroup community; that is, excluding liberals. They lost yet another battle, and every time we defeat them is *VERY* gratifying news. On the down side, all message id's, embedded Google-archived links and email addresses are still broken with a "...", and it's no secret that Google is owned and operated by extremist left-wing liberals, against whom we Republicans, Independents and (informed) moderate Democrats are aggressively boycotting nationwide and worldwide...i.e. "Buy Red!" and "Boycott Blue!" And given Google's recent track record of *across-the-board* censorship of the newsgroup archives, I wouldn't assume that the Google Groups are going to remain on track to recovery or its pre-electionesque user-friendly functionality. They wrecked it before, and they most surely will wreck it again if Google Groups' users should become complacent and let their guard down. The liberals are desperate, and they'll do *anything* to censor freespeech if not kept in check. So it would be a good idea to search Google Groups on both local and foreign domains to make sure long messages aren't being once again truncated, and make sure that monospaced text is still an option. But the issue with the "..." is not likely to be remedied anytime soon on local domains, and having search results cut down by 2/3rds is still a major problem for Google, so users should still use any of the foreign domain Google Groups URLs for serious searches, and continue to frequently register your concerns to Google. I'm happy to see that Google indeed *is* listening, even if they are radical left-wing liberals...let's chalk up another victory for capitalism. (Is Liberal Capitalism an oxymoron?) Daniel Joseph Min http://www.geocities.com/daniel_joseph_min http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?...rch=0x2B1CCFE7 On 15 Mar 2005, wrote: I used to use google groups for usenst and I've just started to TRY and use it again. DAMN! It's been taken over by the moderns! ...DAMN! DAMN!...and so it doesn't BLOODY work! Trying to use it is awful. Everything about it is a nightmare. Who the bloody hell designed this godamn mess? ALSO: I want to give the news that I posted to news.admin.net-abuse.sightings. My post was an innocuous message. It can't be found. Either it never got through or it's been deleted. Yet someone must've seen it because a copy of it was sent by someone to another message board. Google is not usenet. The whole point of usenet was that it was supposed to be free. Not controlled by the usual censor-and-own-the-world scumbags. Damn google to hell. And damn the wikipedia - the worst, filthiest, most ignorant site on the web to hell. 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ALSO: I want to give the news that I posted to news.admin.net-abuse.sightings. My post was an innocuous message. It can't be found. Either it never got through or it's been deleted. moderator=1 Min(imal intellect)=0 perhaps you feel that we come here for samples of your wisdom, let me disabuse you of that notion. Out of 4 groups you regularly pollute, only one has any intrinsic interest in your myopic drivel, or even the topics you expound. Yet someone must've seen it because a copy of it was sent by someone to another message board. Google is not usenet. The whole point of usenet was that it was supposed to be free. Not controlled by the usual censor-and-own-the-world scumbags. I'm going to suggest that usenet groups have been moderated since before you ever touched a keyboard. Apparently, you feel that your views are somehow sacrosanct, another disabusal for you. Why is it that you think we'd be outraged by people who do by accident what we would like to do deliberately (miss out on your self-congratulatory, hug-yourself lunacy) Damn google to hell. And damn the wikipedia - the worst, filthiest, most ignorant site on the web to hell. Alternately, the most up to date, accurate, expandible (you can add or edit from the wiki), online encyclopedia, as well as anathema to the closed minded. I'll bet their major offense is in not having an entry showing that Daniel minimal is the most influential political analyst of our time. You are only a petty-minded troll with access to a computer, not a major political science authority, as the breadth of your posts demonstrate more than adequately. |
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