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Edward Dolan <[email hidden]> wrote:
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Quoted message said:: I think we should always go by how things look in Google. I think newsreaders do not handle
: things all the same way. I think 25 threads per page is about right. I have noticed that any
: thread not in those first 25 threads is dying or already dead.I can accept that as being "only your opinion". I don't know why we should take Google as the
priviledged viewpoint :-) I've also noticed that in Google, often the thread I'm interested in is
not in the first 25, nor even in the first 50. Maybe because I don't use Google for regular
reading?
I suggested Google as the standard as it will appear the same on everyone's computer. Newsreaders
are not all the same and therefore will appear differently on other's computers. Google is a bit
confusing when you first encounter it but it grows on you and before you know it you are navigating
through it without any thought or effort at all.
If you are going beyond the first 25 threads in Google then you fall into a very small minority.
Having read nothing but Google I can tell you that it is uncanny how only those first 25 threads are
in play and once one of those threads fall into the second page they are on their way to oblivion
never to be seen again (except by those who are doing searches).
The only problem I have ever had with Google is when the site goes haywire for some strange reason
and nothing works like it should. But then you know something is wrong and that it will soon be
fixed. I think a lot of guys are paying top dollar for a newservice which I think is different than
a newsreader. As you can tell by all of this, I am not a sophisticated computer user and in fact am
very new to the computer, the Internet and Usenet.
Ed Dolan - Minnesota
By the way, that was a very good explanation of meta. I realize now that I have never quite
understood exactly what that term meant my entire life. Are you a professor of philosophy I wonder?