Questions regarding Qwest.

[Matt Graham]

On Monday 02 July 2007 15:32, after a long battle with technology, Mike 
Schwartz wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Matt Graham wrote:
>> [...] how does Qwest stack up?  There was nothing in their FAQ about 
>> NNTP/newsgroups/Usenet, which probably means I'll have to obtain an 
>> account with news.individual.net or something.
>     http://groups.google.com/
> gateway'ed with Usenet?  It has some cool features,

It lacks scorefiles (killfiles), meaning it's difficult and annoying to 
read some groups.  And it doesn't (IIRC) remember the messages you've 
already read, making it less useful.  Also, a number of the more POed 
participants in comp.os.linux.* killfile all posts matching 
^User-Agent: G2.* because there are so many spammers, clueless people, 
and so forth using G2.  And G2 doesn't thread properly by References:, 
but improperly, using Subject: .

> plus you don't have to worry about [NNTP client] software.  As 
> Forrest might say, "one less thing!"

In all things other than running in a browser, {slrn, emacs, pan, knode} 
beat G2 in all important ways.  At least IMO.

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