>>> Mark Goodge <use...@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Phil W Lee put finger to keyboard and typed:
>>>>> Mark Goodge <use...@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk>:
>>>>>> There is a fourth category, and that has one sole occupant: The "new"
>>>>>> version of Google Groups. That is so horrendously bad that there is no
>>>>>> justification whatsoever for using it, and I have absolutely no sympathy
>>>>>> with anyone who does.
>>>>> I could have some sympathy with someone having to use it due to
>>>>> excessive firewalling or "traffic management" that makes the use of
>>>>> anything but port 80 impossible.
>>>> No; I would just expect them to do what a lot of us already do, that is,
>>>> only use Usenet out of work time.
>>> Nothing wrong with using Usenet in work time, as long as you have the
>>> permission of the boss. If, for example, you are trying to purge a
>>> newsgroup of trolls by interrupting their trolling threads (an
>>> approach which usually pays dividends in discouraging them), it's
>>> necessary to strike while the iron's hot, rather than waiting until
>>> the end of your shift. If the trolls then complain to your company's
>>> site (thus showing that they are rattled), your boss can tell them to
>>> take a running jump. And if the trolls subsequently take their
>>> spurious and malicious complaint to your head office's HR then you can
>>> explain the situation to them too. The trolls are always one step
>>> behind and WILL NEVER WIN.

>> Extraordinary...

> What is?