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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.)

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

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Google has a serious quality problem. Check out the link to the Google Groups page...

1.) Does not scroll with the mouse wheel unless you are in 'certain areas' of the page (aka broken). 2.) They are using Frames, like this is 1999 3.) Instead of easy-to-read button names, they are icons of unknown purpose. 4.) Why all the wasted white space?

Google is a bunch of college smart alecs... you see that in the tone of their posts. But sites like Google Groups are garbage.

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

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Is google still investing resources in Google Groups? It doesn't look that way.

In the last year Groups has had pretty significant work done on improvements. A complete new AJAX based design, better moderation controls for forum owners, and even Q&A features that are being tested in some Google Support forums.
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