On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 02:24 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > Google's becoming evil. > > Not only have they screwed up groups layout, showing a few columns of > text and leaving a big space for ads, now they're pimping their own > group namespace beside usenet. > > It's horrible. > > Is there any other usenet archive? > > I'm getting sick of the things Google's doing (putting ads on the main > page, this) now that they have a stock price to inflate.
I'm not sure about Google groups, but Google has been inflating their stock price for quite a while now and I've never paid much attention. I don't know if Google groups is getting worse than Google proper, but they do need some way to pay for the astronomically expensive hardware that they run. As for usenet archives, I know there are quite a few out there but I don't really use any. When I need an answer I search on google and generally find it since at some point or another it has been discussed on some web-accessible list or group. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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