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Re: Google Groups hacked; spammers are moving your posts and adding SEO keywords

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On Usenet, "Google groups" - which provides easy Usenet access to the clueless, and violates netiquette by default - is only one notch above "AOL". Search "eternal september" for more information. (By the way, aioe.net provides a good free newsserver, as does eternal-september.org. Of course, you'll have to go elsewhere for binaries.)

Thanks for those references, though it's aioe.org, not .net.

Re: Google Groups hacked; spammers are moving your posts and adding SEO keywords

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that I use Google Groups / Usenet from a browser often, but here it goes... #1 and #2 Google should consider the scroll from any UI component; however, I have to wonder where you have drawn such a conclusion to 1999 UI/UX. You are seriously against fixed-position controls? #3 You must have an axe to grind with Google and/or Gmail. At Gmail, the label-less buttons were daunting for all of one minute. In the case o…

#1 and #2 are annoying. They need to stop it. #3 I do not want to mouse over everything to find out what button to click. I'd prefer it if they labeled the buttons. I prefer interface design that isn't stupid.

The buttons should have labels. Google shouldn't assume every person who log's onto any Google app will know what they mean.Even though I'm a power user and I still prefer labels to icons.
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