Wow!! MUCH Improved Googling!!

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Yep...I noticed that.... now to sort out the triple posting!

I'll stick with a newsreader to post when i'm at home.

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Which brings up the question... were you going to post the same thread every minute to see how long it took?

LOL

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Yo, Shade Tree... this is an old person playing with new technology... it's gonna take me a while to sort this all out. Be patient.

Dagnabbit... hopefully this one goes through okay... Patrick '93 Cobra '83 LTD

I've been impressed by the interface (same goes for Gmail). Pretty slick.

My only complaint with the new and improved Google Groups is that they censor e-mail addresses and message IDs.

Whenever I'm not at home I use my home computer... I use WinVNC to get to my desktop and do all my non-demanding tasks on my home computer. For example, it's much easier to just use the Outlook I have set up on my own machine to keep everything easy to manage and all my important stuff at home. I could always set up an Exchange server and do it that way, but I don't consider running a Win2k Server a permanent thing. I play with my Win2k Server machine a lot for MCSE stuff. in any case, check out WinVNC. It's small.. Fits on a floppy and is small enough to quickly download anywhere (~280KB for the viewer, ~600KB for the server). It's also platform independant, (can view a Windows machine from a Unix and vice versa). Very convenient and doesn't use a ton of bandwidth. Microsoft's implementation is faster, particularly on 2003/.NET server, but that's not practical for everyone and can only be used on a Server machine without buying licenses. WinVNC is free and works great.

Cory

Cory Dunkle opined

That's cool ... now after you get yer MCSE, promise you'll start with Probst and EECIV and learn some fun stuff!

LOL

Sounds like trouble to me... I think I'll stick with the type of computers I know and love, or something like that. Actually all that computer stuff on cars is interesting to me. Some day I'll get around to understanding it.

Cory

Yes, Patrick. It's OK. But....

Did you insert "Patrick" as your name in google, only to see your e-mail show up as your name? That's because Google seems to want you to "Subscribe" to a newsgroup before it will add your name to the left of your e-mail address when posting.

It is in Beta, but I seem to like the "old" way better.

Just four years, and several billion dollars in book value, later since Google bought out Deja News, and they've finally returned to the service levels that Deja offered WITHOUT all the advertising over there on the right side of the screen. It'd be churlish not to be grateful but I'm not ready to nominate them for the Nobel just yet.

So this is my first post with the new Google. Clicking my stopwatch at

8:35 a.m. PST on Friday December 10, let's see how long it takes for this to appear. And what's this stuff I see at the end of some posts, that the author requested that the post not be archived and that it'll disappear in "x" days or hours? What's wrong with you pantywaists? Afraid of a little immortality?

180 Out TS 28

If Google hadn't taken over Deja, the whole archive access would have gone belly-up.

I agree about x-no-archive (which also existed in Deja). It's chickenshit -- on the user's part, not Google's. It seems designed for trolls, for spammers, and for people who post when they're drunk.

BTW, the new Google groups service doesn't seem to be complete. Another group I frequent (far more than this one) doesn't show prompt updates.

at 10 Dec 2004, rw [rw56_to_the snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net] wrote in news:%5lud.6921$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net:

The X-No_archive feature is for those of us who don't like to be spammed up the wazoo by dorks harvesting email addresses through Google/Deja's news archive. Bad enough I have to put a fake email in my headers and an obfuscated/non-machine readable one in my signature to prevent my spamfilter from working itself into exhaustion.

I also don't really need my ramblings preserved for generations to come, that's a waste of perfectly good diskspace. Hence I post with the X-No-Archive set to yes.

11:38 EST 12/10/04

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