In <1129572496.683711.292000@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups. com>, on
10/17/2005
at 11:08 AM,
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>I think it's very convinient. I don't know why you so hate Google
>Groups?[/color]
For the same reason that others do; the original version was clum sy
and the new version is not only clumsy but broken.
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>Why do you think it's bad?[/color]
The obvious reason is that it doesn't present the original article, so
even if you attempt to manually create the attribution lin e that it
should have created automatically, the data are not present for you to
do so. At least with the old version I could request the original
article, save it as a file and then reply to it using a real news
client.
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>And I still don't get why it is necessary to quote.[/color]
Because otherwise your reply has no context, especially if you are
replying to a large article or to one that arrives at a news server
later than your reply does.
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>Please tell me why people think Google Group is bad.[/color]
Because it's broken. It doesn't support proper attribution lines,
quoting and signature blocks.
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>I love Google, I use Google everyday, so it's quite important to me.[/color]
Then I'd urge you to start lobbying google to fix it, because
otherwise you're going[1] to have people filtering out everything
posted from google, or even news servers dropping those articles.
[1] Assuming that it hasn't already started.
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