New Google Groups format

On 11/12/20 9:19 PM, Moshe Braner wrote:
I use Google Groups to read RAS. I know there are other ways to reach it, but this has been my preferred method. I don't want to install new software or to have group messages appear within my email.

Now Google has forced upon me their new, dumbed down, look and feel of Groups. It's been in "beta" for months, I've tried it out and sent them my feedback but of course they ignored what I told them. Now, for example, I can no longer see how many NEW messages there are in a thread before I open it.

But the worst of it is: I can't reply privately to the author of a message. The "reply to author" entry appears in the 3-dot menu, but is grayed out, and if I hover over it it says I am not authorized to send messages. But I could do that in the old format, and I can now post messages to the whole group. Blech. Does anybody know of a workaround?


We discussed exactly this maybe six months ago. I use Thunderbird,
which doesn't require new software to be installed, and Usenet messages
are kept segregated from email. Plus it has nice filtering capability
to take out flame-baiters or topics of no interest. It doesn't obscure
email address of posters, so no problem at all doing personal replies.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:00:33 -0700, kinsell wrote:

We discussed exactly this maybe six months ago. I use Thunderbird,
which doesn't require new software to be installed, and Usenet messages
are kept segregated from email. Plus it has nice filtering capability
to take out flame-baiters or topics of no interest. It doesn't obscure
email address of posters, so no problem at all doing personal replies.

When I was a Windows user, the best newsreader I found was Forte Agent -
its not free but does have a free trial period. The only reason I'm not
using it now is that I no longer use Windows: if Forte released a Linux
version I'd be using it.

I'm currently using Pan, which is free but no longer, apparently,
maintained, which is annoying, and have also used Thunderbird.


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On 11/13/20 7:05 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:00:33 -0700, kinsell wrote:

We discussed exactly this maybe six months ago. I use Thunderbird,
which doesn't require new software to be installed, and Usenet messages
are kept segregated from email. Plus it has nice filtering capability
to take out flame-baiters or topics of no interest. It doesn't obscure
email address of posters, so no problem at all doing personal replies.

When I was a Windows user, the best newsreader I found was Forte Agent -
its not free but does have a free trial period. The only reason I'm not
using it now is that I no longer use Windows: if Forte released a Linux
version I'd be using it.

I'm currently using Pan, which is free but no longer, apparently,
maintained, which is annoying, and have also used Thunderbird.



I just trashed Windows forever about two weeks ago. Using and loving
Ubuntu now. But I was able to keep Thunderbird when I switched (do some
research on how before doing this). I kept Chrome for about 3 days
before switching to Brave as a browser (thanks 5Z!)

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On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:48:52 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

I just trashed Windows forever about two weeks ago. Using and loving
Ubuntu now. But I was able to keep Thunderbird when I switched (do some
research on how before doing this). I kept Chrome for about 3 days
before switching to Brave as a browser (thanks 5Z!)

Good move!

I used Firefox for years, but switched to Brave about a year ago.


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