Re: Why is Google Groups the most popular way to post ?

On Apr 7, 12:07 pm, sal <pragmat...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:59:08 +0000, Jeff▲Relf wrote:
So, according to you ( Doug ), Eric Gisse “ doesn't know computers ”
because he uses Google Groups to post ?

Why is Google Groups the most popular way to post ? Is it because they
haven't heard of slrn or my X.ZIP ?

It's convenient, it's reliable, it's free, and you can get there from any
computer.  Google has fabulous connectivity and a sky high completion rate
-- posts sent to Google reliably make it to all the news services, as far
as I can see; that's less true of some other services.

I occasionally use Google Groups to post when my regular news service is
in the weeds (which happens from time time).  If Google had kill files and
a nicer editor I'd use it all the time.

And as to "not knowing computers", uh, these are math and physics groups,
not computer groups, so who cares whether a poster is a computer expert or
a computer cipher?  Knowing how to backtrace the stack in Ada isn't going
to help with understanding renormalization, for instance.

 In Sci.Phyics, last 2 months, these

nyms used Google Groups to post:

  Snowflake babies stay, Eric Gisse, Double-A, pmb, Twittering One
  koobee.wublee@gmail, NoEinstein, Y.y.Porat, Benj, PD, Dorn.Strich
  Sanny, knews4u2chew@yahoo, namekuseijin, schoenfeld.forever, mpc755

Of these, Gisse, pmb, Porat, PD, and Schoenfield are apparently posting
under their own names or initials, and have been using the same "handles"
for many years.  Most (but not all) of the rest in this block of names are
posting from stable accounts which haven't changed in a long time, and are
legitimate posters, not trying to evade anything by using Google.

The rest of the blocks of names you've given here look about the same --
about half the posters are totally legit, and many are posting under their
own names or initials.

So, who cares if they use Google?  What's the beef?





  HardySpicer, JSH, kenseto, anands...@xxxxxxxxx, socratus marcofuics,
  dlzc, edon, Pentcho Valev, Dave, Rock Brentwood tadc...@xxxxxxxxxxx,
  alien8er, Jang Jin Hong, Igor

  Ilja Schmelzer, Strich.Nein, koobee.wublee, Pico, BradGuth Uncle Ben,
  Brian, jmorr...@xxxxxxxxxxx, papa_r...@xxxxxxxxxxx hhc314@yahoo, Ken
  S. Tucker, george, Shubee

  frankli...@xxxxxxxxx, lwal...@xxxxxxxxx, BURT, Autymn D. C Kirby M.
  Wilson, Sue, mahipal7638, Heliyummm, Don Stockbauer mike3,
  brent...@xxxxxxx, kens...@xxxxxxxxxx, MoeBlee, kp

  J-Bird, trot...@xxxxxxxxxxxx, z, zzbun...@xxxxxxxxxxxx 5...@xxxxxxxx,
  Ivan Gorelik, qhi0hxql...@xxxxxxxxx sir.jeanpaul-turcaud, Steve Puetz,
  Mike, UncleEnglish, john030409

  kurtstocklmeir, plutonium.archimedes, frank sir.jpturc...@xxxxxxx,
  wla...@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Immortalist, WM curtjester1, Iarnrod, oriel36,
  eratosthenes

  pba...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, aprent...@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Jonathan Doolin
  Gad-Noe, knews4u2chew, john210309, American, bestbefore@hushmail
  Puppet_Sock, Ray Vickson, Chris.Bee, Roger Coppock

  Brian Chandler, Trurl, Tim BandTech.com, OsherD, oct1...@xxxxxxx David
  R Tribble, Dono, Mistress Helios, Tater Gumfries Greatest Mining,
  lamar, Robert Clark, joe, MooseFET

  Keith P Walsh, Bor...@xxxxxxxxxx, brad, Errol, Yuriy, aleonis
  acridiniumester, Jacko, shrikeb...@xxxxxxxxx, blackhead
  jbriggs...@xxxxxxxxx, a_guest, Budikka, mahipal7...@xxxxxxxxx

  GoldenHeart, leland.mcinnes@gmail, a7yvm109gf5d1@netzero, bahus
  willo_thewisp@hotmail, adaminchicago, hot-ham-and-cheese, SID
  Xaustein, dearcilla, T. Parker, Agile Consulting, Mark-T

  kdth...@xxxxxxxxx, BOfL, Albert, erg, Fossil Lin, GreenXenon
  philipp...@xxxxxxxxx, hhc...@xxxxxxxxx, ste...@xxxxxxxxxxx Edon
  Benutzer, mrdarr...@xxxxxxxxx, spamfreecompdsp@gmail

  number6, arminio_grgic@yahoo, Dov Henis, NoeDOTNatDOTNoe THE BORG,
  juandiego, amzoti, duda...@xxxxxxxxx leonard7...@xxxxxxxxx, Mahipal,
  mluttg...@xxxxxxxxx

  Garry Denke, johnlawrencereedjr, K. M. Kirby‚ esq, George Greene
  rlbell, bob haller, jesko, kir...@xxxxxxxxx, xxe...@xxxxxxxxx C3,
  Paulie Walnutts, RustyJames, gb6...@xxxxxxxxx

  dank...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, iamjohngabriel@gmail, turtoni RefNavigator,
  achille, Nicko, pnals...@xxxxxxxxx spamtrap1...@xxxxxxxxx,
  tnlock...@xxxxxxx, Vu Ngo, redrok


And very few people know that Google sends a $100.00 check to the
sender for every post made! Honest!
.