| Nomen Nescio 2005-03-15, 5:45 pm |
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YES! Google has undergone some "interesting" transformations
since they lost the most important election in human history
on that happy fateful Tuesday November 2nd, 2004 anno Domini.
But lately things are greatly and notably improving, read on...
Beginning about December 1, 2004, the local domain Google
"Groups" went to hell in a handbasket. Longer messages were
being severely truncated, all embedded links, message id's
and email addys broken with a "...", the number of "hits"
cut down to less than one-third of what's actually still
in the archives (accessible on the foreign-domain servers),
and monospaced plain text messages were being forced into
non-monospaced text (like Times Roman) which made messages
look like gobbledygook, especially messages with charts or
ascii art, etc. Truly, Google went down the post-election
toilet as fast as you can say "Beta" Groups totally sucked!
Apparently, however, because Google quickly received so many
millions of furious complaints over their draconian censorship
of the public newsgroup archives (with messages dating back
to 1981, with early messages post-dated from 1979), Google
has begun to back away from their anti-freespeech bitterness,
and have restored some of the previous functionality to the
local domain Groups servers. At least at this writing March
15, 2005, it now appears that longer archived messages are
no longer being truncated, which in and of itself is a VERY
encouraging sign (that was a BIG issue). &Google now offers
the choice of reading messages in monospaced text--another
very promising sign that Google realized that they had gone
too far over the line with their censorship, and corporate
profits could begin to be in jeopardy had Google chosen to
ignore their millions of "Groups" users. These, shall we say
RE-improvements of the google Groups should come as quite a
relief for the whole worldwide usenet newsgroup community;
that is, excluding liberals. They lost yet another battle,
and every time we defeat them is *VERY* gratifying news.
On the down side, all message id's, embedded Google-archived
links and email addresses are still broken with a "...", and
it's no secret that Google is owned and operated by extremist
left-wing liberals, against whom we Republicans, Independents
and (informed) moderate Democrats are aggressively boycotting
nationwide and worldwide...i.e. "Buy Red!" and "Boycott Blue!"
And given Google's recent track record of *across-the-board*
censorship of the newsgroup archives, I wouldn't assume that
the Google Groups are going to remain on track to recovery
or its pre-electionesque user-friendly functionality. They
wrecked it before, and they most surely will wreck it again
if Google Groups' users should become complacent and let
their guard down. The liberals are desperate, and they'll
do *anything* to censor freespeech if not kept in check.
So it would be a good idea to search Google Groups on both
local and foreign domains to make sure long messages aren't
being once again truncated, and make sure that monospaced
text is still an option. But the issue with the "..." is
not likely to be remedied anytime soon on local domains,
and having search results cut down by 2/3rds is still a
major problem for Google, so users should still use any of
the foreign domain Google Groups URLs for serious searches,
and continue to frequently register your concerns to Google.
I'm happy to see that Google indeed *is* listening, even if
they are radical left-wing liberals...let's chalk up another
victory for capitalism. (Is Liberal Capitalism an oxymoron?)
Daniel Joseph Min
http://www.geocities.com/daniel_joseph_min
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup...arch=0x2B1CCFE7
On 15 Mar 2005, debussy@cyber-rights.net wrote:
>I used to use google groups for usenst and I've just started to TRY
>and use it again. DAMN! It's been taken over by the moderns! ...DAMN!
>DAMN!...and so it doesn't BLOODY work!
>Trying to use it is awful. Everything about it is a nightmare. Who the
>bloody hell designed this godamn mess?
>ALSO: I want to give the news that I posted to
>news.admin.net-abuse.sightings. My post was an innocuous message. It
>can't be found. Either it never got through or it's been deleted. Yet
>someone must've seen it because a copy of it was sent by someone to
>another message board. Google is not usenet. The whole point of usenet
>was that it was supposed to be free. Not controlled by the usual
>censor-and-own-the-world scumbags.
>Damn google to hell. And damn the wikipedia - the worst, filthiest,
>most ignorant site on the web to hell.
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