Re: Google please assign this group a moderator

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 03:30:52 -0700 (PDT), muser wrote:

I remember 5\6 years ago this group was one of the best physics
newsgroup for the lay enthausiast. Now every semi illiterate,
juvenile, with an opinion posts on this forum. would it be too much
trouble for google to get a team together to moderate this group?

By the time you get to this point in the thread, you will have had pointed
out to you many times that Google Groups is not Usenet. Google Groups does
offer access to Usenet through a web interface, but not only is it a bad
interface, but you can't filter out posts from people you don't want to
read messages from.

If you want to keep reading this group, you should set up a real
newsreader. Thunderbird and Outlook, which you may already have, will read
newsgroups. I'm using 40tude Dialog, an old piece of freeware, because it
allows me to easily filter out replies to the posts I'm blocking. From
your headers, it appears you're using BT for Internet access; if that is
the case, your news server is news.btinternet.com.

And if you're looking for a moderated newsgroup like sci.physics, there's
sci.physics.research.

--
Jim E. Black (domain in headers)
How to filter out stupid arguments in 40tude Dialog:
!markread,ignore From "Name" +"<email address>"
[X] Watch/Ignore works on subthreads
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