deborah writes “When Google bought Deja years ago, they plastered the Google brand all over Usenet. Now they’re going even further, with the roll-out of the new Google Groups, which appears to combine Usenet searching with a Google mailing list / bulletin board system, ala Yahoo! Groups. There’s so much rubbish in Usenet these days that it probably won’t be too harmful a dilution, since knowledgeable searchers should be able to look in specific groups and trees, still. I hope.”
It should be pointed out Slashdot reports Google backed off its beta of Google Groups within 24 hours of making it mandatory for all users.
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