[Info-vax] NewsGroup has gone very quiet.

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <pqCdncIpg4RDCNzTnZ2dnUVZ8tWdnZ2d at brightview.co.uk>, "John
Wallace" <not at any.price> writes: 

> Next time you hear some presentation-layer or SEO person talking about how 
> good Google's technology is, remember to remind them of this second extended 
> downtime in a few weeks, in what really truly ought not to be a difficult 
> application. Google's newsgroup search has been broken for a very long time 
> too, I ought to try http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/ but I 
> keep forgetting. 

The basic functionality of Google Groups is lower, and its implementation far
more ignorant, than, say, a 1990 version of Majordomo.

           ---RobertPlamondon at http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/