On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:44:13 -0500, "Roger (K8RI)" wrote in :

... But I understand the hankering on the part of
some to go back to the glory days before Google--or before

Now there you made a left turn on false assumptions and that is
plural. There were no "glory days" and there is no hankering to
return.

We've got a guy in news.groups who expresses such
fond memories and vain hopes. I've promised not
to name or quote him, so he'll just have to be
my Voldemort. He'd like to roll back the clock
to when spaf was in charge.

that Never Ended era myself, so I've only heard about those
halcyon days from grizzled and somewhat cranky elders.

Deja News was easier to read and use than Google News Groups and it
was organized much better for the end user. It was much more like
using one of today's news readers which are very easy to use. You
certainly didn't need to be a computing guru to use it. OTOH they
didn't have much of a search engine.

I used DejaNews and know I liked it a lot, but I don't
remember the interface at all. I hear a lot of complaints
about Google and share a few of them, but (on balance) I'm
delighted that they're keeping the archives open for business.

So that folks will know how much salt to use on this, I don't
earn anything at all from Google, but I volunteer time on a
committee with someone who does, so that may tend to bias
my view.

Marty
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