On 23 May, 19:23, James Farrar wrote:
The moral of the story is: Don't use Google Groups.- Hide quoted text
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Apparantly so, although someone on another group made the point that -

"Browsing a website for interesting posts once a day or so is much
better than having to sift through the dull/nonsense/spam messages in
your inbox, wearing out your delete key finger in the process... It
also means you can search group archives in an instant".

Is there a happy medium?

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gordon

wrote:
On 23 May, 19:23, James Farrar wrote:
The moral of the story is: Don't use Google Groups.- Hide quoted text
-

Apparantly so, although someone on another group made the point that -

"Browsing a website for interesting posts once a day or so is much
better than having to sift through the dull/nonsense/spam messages in
your inbox, wearing out your delete key finger in the process... It
also means you can search group archives in an instant".

Is there a happy medium?

Yes, Usenet.
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Michael Hoffman