Re: What happened to this grooup?

"Neb Okla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> People abandoned the public newsgroup for a private site.
> 
> Personally, I think it's a pain having to approve every newsgroup post.

This is one advantage of using the web to access it; if you're logged in 
no approval is required.  The web interface is actually one of the 
nicest discussion group interfaces I've encountered.


> They do have it divided out nicely by category, but much as with Usenet at
> large, people simply crosspost everywhere all the time.
> 
> So it really just moves discussions out of the public domain.

Al least it is fully archived, unlike most web forums.  The entire 
message database since inception is accessible.

Kevin