Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 01/16/35 11:31

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> 1. To peruse the NG first to get a feel for how it works and for the
> possibility your question's answer may already be posted, (maybe
> 5000 times)

It's a strange phenomenon (based on what little I've bothered to read
from that class of persons), that those posting from GG show the least
evidence of having used GG to review previous discussion.

I must admit that I find GG (like the dejanews archive which they
gobbled up) quite a useful resource for finding answers without having
to bother anyone else. But their posting interface must be abysmal,
judging from the results that it so often produces. And it worries me
that they seem to be presenting our long-established Usenet groups,
which had existed and matured for years before Google ever existed
(indeed, for many years before I became aware of Usenet myself), to
naive newcomers as if they might be GG-specific web forums. Sigh.

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