Re: Usenet vs. Web

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"RJB" <notpublic@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ZU1pe.4250$xI2.1297@xxxxxxxxxxx
> The google group thing sounds interesting...
>
> But your link was a little flaky. Can you repost?
>
> Thanks for the tip,
>
> (And, you have to admit, many people just ain't trying to help when they
> extol the virtues of newsgroups vs. Web... It seems like it's an ego "I was
> internet before internet was cool" kind of thing.)
>
>
> "Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Ol5GpCtaFHA.2980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > In Li1pe.19078$J73.15842@trnddc05">news:Li1pe.19078$J73.15842@trnddc05,
> > RJB <notpublic@xxxxxxx> typed:
> >
> >> I am going to go out on a limb and say I prefer the web access to
> >> these help groups OVER the usenet versions. I would think others,
> >> would, too.
> >> Follow me out, please.
> >>
> >> I currently am not having any problems with, say, Excel.
> >>
> >> So I dont subscribe to any Excel newsgroups.
> >>
> >> But tomorrow, I may need to do something bizarre - like writing a
> >> formula that will take prime numbers, divide by pi, and if the result
> >> rhymes with whatever word is typed into cell A1, it will list it as a
> >> nine-digit number, will cross-reference it and give me the phone
> >> number of the nearest Circuit City to that ZIP+4 code.
> >>
> >> So, if I subscribe to the Excel newsgroup, it only pushes posts from
> >> June 2 til today into my Outlook.
> >
> >
> > First, note that Outlook doesn't do newsgroups at all. You mean Outlook
> > Express, not Outlook.
> >
> > Second, with Outlook Express you can get all the posts that are one the
> > server, not just a couple of days back. If you're not getting all the
> > posts, it's probably that you have Outlook Express configured to get only
> > 300 posts at a time (the default). Go to Tools | Options, and on the
> > Read tab, uncheck "Get nnnn headers at a time."
> >
> > Third, Outlook Express is only one newsreader out of many possible
> > choices. If you don't like the way Outlook Express does things, try some
> > other newsreader. They are almost all better than using the web interface.
> >
> >
> >> But on the web interface, I can search archives that go back at least
> >> as far as September 2004.
> >
> >
> > Fourth, if you want to do a search, the search facilities at
> > http://groups-beta.ghow oogle.com/ are probably the best available, and
> > you can (and should) use them regardless of you normally participate in
> > newsgroups.
> >
> >
> >> So I can actually look to see if someone else had a similar problem,
> >> and try to solve it for myself.
> >
> >
> > That's good to do, but try googlegroups (especially their advanced group
> > search), which is superior.
> >
> >
> >> But with the usenet version, I MUST post my CURRENT problem. Which is
> >> probably frustrating for people who monitor this thing.
> >>
> >> So, I would think the web interface would be OK.
> >>
> >> But reading other people's posts, it seems that if I use the Web
> >> version, my children will be born dumb.
> >
> >
> > You are welcome to use newsgroups any way you want, but people are trying
> > to help you by pointing out better ways of doing things. As far as I'm
> > concerned, there are two major problems with using the Microsoft web-based
> > interface:
> >
> > 1. It doesn't work very well, and people often have a hard time finding
> > what they're looking for.
> >
> > 2. If you want to participate in a newsgroup regularly, it's much slower
> > than a newsreader. That's because it gets the messages one at a time, as
> > you navigate to each new message. With a newsreader, you can download all
> > the unread messages at once, so moving from one to the next is
> > instantaneous.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> > Please reply to the newsgroup
> >
>
>


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