Google groups down for a week now

[Tim Streater]

Woss this? You goofing off at work?

[tinnews]

You install them as a user for just your own use.

[John Rumm]

Search got much better from version 3 - you can now do fairly decent searches, and keep search results and then search those etc.

[John Rumm]

You install one on a computer you do have control over, or find a so called "Portable" edition of one that you can run without installation on someone else's computer. However that was not really the point I was attempting to address - and was primarily addressing harry's point that you are "stuck with the interface they give you".

[John Rumm]

Because "what you like" was broken. It was entirely possible that it may have stayed that way had the outage been a policy decision by google rather than a genuine "fault" to be fixed.

How do I kill a thread in gg? or mark one that I think relevant so its easy to find later? Or just look only at threads that I have participated in recently that have new messages?

Perhaps these can be done, but one man's intuitive is not universal.

Each to his own... personally I find accessing usenet via a web interface pretty hideous and slow - but to an extent this is partly down to what you are used to.

IME not that often - but occasionally very useful.

Sometimes true... but then again I think it is worth respecting the time and effort of others to spend a bit of time yourself looking for something when you know it is out there.

[John Rumm]

not working either.

Since the object of the exercise seems to be collating "content" into a site to sell advertising against, having it setup so you can throw up a new variant anywhere, with little effort and without needing a newsfeed, it makes sense.

[jgharston]

Which means I have to wait to trek home in order to access any newgroups, by which time I may have forgotten what it was I was looking for, or it may be too late to use the information.

JGH