| Paul Lalli 2006-01-24, 7:55 am |
| abhi wrote:
> I'll keep it simple. how do i subscribe to a usenet group.?
That depends entirely on your newsreader. There is no general answer.
> and is it same as google groups?
NO. Usenet is NOT the same as Google Groups. Google Groups is three
services all rolled into one:
1) A set of Google-owned discussions groups
2) An archive of decades' worth of Usenet Postings
3) An interface to post to *both* Usenet newsgroups and Google's own
discussion groups.
#3 is where we have problems. Google posters seem to believe that
posting to Usenet is the same as posting to any of Google's own groups.
It is not. Usenet existed for decades before anyone uttered the word
"Google". Usenet newsgroups are still read around the world without
the use of Google. Because of the nature of Usenet, it is completely
inappropriate to assume that anyone has read a post to which you are
replying. Articles can show up at the various news servers in any
order at all, or even not at all. That is why it is customary and
tradition to quote the text that you are replying to when you post a
reply to a Usenet newsgroup - because the people reading your reply
might never have seen the message you're replying to. Even if they
have, there is no cause at all to assume that they are viewing the
messages in any kind of "threaded" manner. Your message is its own
entity - one individual message, not intrinsically connected to any
other message. Only the text you put into your message - including
quoting whatever you're replying to - can be used to determine what
you're talking about.
You should read: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1/
> i'll b happy if some one cud pull me out of this one! ;-)
Here's another lesson. Stop talking like a five year old. Speak in
complete sentences. Speak in complete words. Talking like this makes
you 1) look like an idiot who can't spell. 2) very rude to people for
whom English is not their native language, who might not be familiar
with these slang misspellings.
Does it really take that much longer to type "I'll" instead of "i'll",
"be" instead of "b", or "could" instead of "cud"?
Paul Lalli
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