Re: Limited-access technical advice

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Jason Earl <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, May 03 2011, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
>> It was reported to me that a lot of technical advice about Emacs is
>> requested and given in Google groups, which are only visible to people
>> who use Gmail.
>
> Google Groups is mostly just a web front end for USENET.

Not any more. It started long ago as that but today it justs includes
what once was USENET. Most Google groups are not in USENET.

For what it is worth I consider Google groups to be the technically
best mailing lists I have seen so far.