Re: Time Variance Regarding Helicopter

On May 13, 9:37=A0pm, Jim Gysin <jimgy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> with so many people using Google Groups
> these days (and I'll *never* understand that one),

Even when I used to NNTP, I found myself searching the Deja News
archive often enough that I was glad to take advantage of this posting
ability once it became available; half the time I wound up replying
thru Google anyway rather than NNTPing back.  Then a great number of
ISPs stopped bundling an NNTP server subscription with their service,
and at the same time free news servers became nearly extinct.  Plus,
you had a lot of new users on the WWW who'd never used Usenet to begin
with.

Heck, I used to access some Usenet groups via BBSs that made UUCP cx
1-3 times a day, sometimes less!

The only thing bothersome about Deja Googling these days is the
proliferation of proprietary Google groups that overwhelm the returns
from many searches with spammy hits.  I wish I had terms that'd sift
these out from Google's interface.  I could filter by rec.*, sci.*,
alt.*, etc., but that's far from satisfactory.

Robert