(PeteCresswell) wrote:
> Per Duke of Hazard:
>>Sometimes google groups is entirely down for many hours. I get the
>>impression folks at Google don't care too much about it anymore, what
>>do you think.
>
> I'll use Google Groups for a quick post when I run into some
> technical problem at work - hoping to find some replies when I
> get home or before work the next day.
>
> Having said that... I find a web-based interface *really*
> cumbersome for reading NGs - and can't imagine relying on Google
> Groups exclusively.
>
> I've use Forete's "Agent" for both eMail and NGs practically
> since it first came out and am a happy camper. Also, it seems
> to me like Outlook does NGs too. If server access were an issue

No, but Outlook Express does.

> and I couldn't afford $12.00 per year for Individual.net - and,
> I'd try some of the many freebie NG servers - after, of course,
> verifying that my provider didn't have NG servers (Verizon does,
> for one...)

"NG"? "Servers"? You're talking to a Google Groper, there, Pete. Don't
use such big words.

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