Thomas Weidenfeller coughed up:
He is just another victim of the new Google Groups Beta. The main page
has an apparently unresistable "Create new groups" link. Which of
course only creates a local google-group's forum, and not a Usenet
group at all.
The GUI "conveniently" hides the fact that google-groups carries
Usenet groups which are not owned by and are not under the control of
Google at all. Of course Google doesn't explain the different,
doesn't provide some introduction to Usenet groups and also no longer
cares about abuse in Usenet groups :-(
/Thomas
Yep. They're annoying as hell. Actually, I recently posted a question in
comp.programming, asking how the heck can I get that stupid beta groups
thing to find /only/ usenet groups and not return the brain dead crap.
There is no way other than to use groups.google.co.uk, which came as a
suggestion. It works as the old interface.
Furthermore I just cannot stand it when people try to fragment groups
unnecessarily. It is just ridiculous. I also wish I could remove ng's like
comp.lang.java from verizon and other big servers, because it was retired
from the published big-8 newsgroup lists a /while/ ago, yet people will
still post to it, which depletes the population from c.l.j.programmer.
--
I've seen this a few times--Don't make this mistake:
Dwight: "This thing is wildly available."
Smedly: "Did you mean wildly, or /widely/ ?"
Dwight: "Both!", said while nodding emphatically.
Dwight was exposed to have made a grammatical
error and tries to cover it up by thinking
fast. This is so painfully obvious that he
only succeeds in looking worse.