On 1 Mar 2006, at 00:01, Matt Emson wrote:
Is anyone else concerned, as I am, that LEM is washing its hands of us?
Seems likely that the Mac UK list will be forced (with little more
than a
barked order) on to Google Groups fairly soon. Does any one want to
step in
with an alternative and shove a firm middle finger (metophorically,
obviously) to Google? Google bastardised the wonderful Deja news
service to
create what is now Google groups. They absolutely trashed what little
they
left of the Deja News interface when the "mailing list" groups beta
came
about, and made searching the Usenet archives absolutely hell. I used
to use
Google Groups daily to search for programming help, but it's almost
impossible to do that now. Google, as usual, are trying to be too
much, and
doing it badly. Google Groups is a bit like a poor imitation of Yahoo
Groups.
Anyone else got a chip on their shoulders like me, or should I sit in
silence till the end? ;-(
FWIW the transition of the Compacts list from MacLaunch to Google has
been pretty painless. There are several advantages to the move, not
least since MacLaunch's service was problematic to say the least.
Under Google, the new Vintage list works very well indeed, and it
easily managed by the nannies.
I would not fear about the transition of Mac UK.
Stuart
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