From: thefadden@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 7:10:32 PM UTC-8, Your Name wrote:   
   > Google Groups has always been an extremely crap way to read Usenet, as    
   > well as a source of tons of tolling morons. Anyone with sense gets a    
   > Usenet provider service (there are free ones) and a proper newsreader    
   > app.   
      
   The problem isn't that people who want to read comp.sys.apple2 won't be able   
   to.  The problem is that people who have no idea what comp.sys.apple2 is will   
   no longer have a zero-barrier way to access it.  They need to find an app and   
   a feed provider,    
   which creates a barrier to access that many people won't cross simply because   
   it's inconvenient.   
      
   Google Groups made it possible to post a simple URL and say, "comp.sys.apple2   
   is here, you can read and post easily".  I agree that it's not a great way to   
   access Usenet, but it's really convenient.   
      
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