Richard Henry wrote:

I have started accessing rsa through google groups (groups.google.com)
this week because 1) my local ISP dropped rsa when they picked up rsam
(yes, I have complained) 2) my news.individual.net one-year
subscription that I started last year when I was out of town for a
while has expired.

I avoided google groups last year becuse of its ugly web interface and
clumsy post-quoting method. However, things seem to be better now.

Nah, it still sucks, and most of the people posting from it don't know
how to properly quote so you get all these newbyesque posts with no
context. It's a great archive, but a lousy way to participate - for one
thing you can't see what you've read and what you haven't, and for
another you can't sort by date and see the posts in chronological order.
My guess is that eventually Google will have a usable usenet
interface, but it's not soup yet.

But congratulations on the new email address. Hopefully you can refrain
from talking about my least favorite subject enough to remain out of the
killfile.

BTW, one of my isp's dropped usenet altogether, and my other isp is so
inept that their newsserver is always broken. To make a long story short
I found myself in the market for a new newsfeed. After doing a bit of
research I found Forte News Service for about 3 bucks a month and so far
I'm pretty happy with it.

Now, I'll just wait patiently for the return of [ob] snow.

//Walt