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   From: evelyn.ruut@gmail.com   
      
   "Julian"  wrote in message   
   news:i4j8sb$12f$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > On 19/08/2010 13:04, Lee Rudolph wrote:   
   >> Julian  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> On 19/08/2010 10:52, syringe nipples wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> for 2 and a half months my sent folder has been saving my messages in   
   >>>> firefox and they number just over 5,000, that sounds more realistic. i   
   >>>> did use google groups temporarily in that period but very shortly.   
   >>>   
   >>> 5000 sent, cross posted to perhaps 4 or 5 groups   
   >>> is 20 to 25 thousand posts in the Google archive   
   >>> no matter which posting method you use.   
   >>   
   >> If so, a further testimony to the utter cackhandedness   
   >> of Google when it comes to Usenet.   
   >   
   > It's not really Google fault that Usenet works that way   
   > with a copy of every post sent to every group in its list.   
   >   
   > Of course it is debateable as to whether it would be   
   > profitable or strategic useful to invest in overhauling   
   > the whole system.   
      
      
   Some seem to believe that usenet is a dinosaur that may disappear someday.   
   Many ISP's have discontinued news service.    I think that would be a   
   tragedy if it were discontinued.   Other venues are interesting, but usenet   
   fills a definite need.   
      
   --   
   Best Regards,   
   Evelyn   
      
   In the stony fastness of the mountains there is a strange market, where one   
   may barter the vortex of life for boundless bliss.  - Milarepa   
      
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