Then the
dot-com era collapsed and DejaNews was endangered. But who should come to the rescue,
but the company working so hard to make the Web more useful to humans: Google.
Google Groups is a way to search through the Usenet archives with all the standard Google
search tools and to get spam-free web access to all of today??™s Usenet as well. Google does,
of course, place ads on the pages.
Just go to Google Groups (http://groups.google.com) and do a keyword search, or browse
groups through the links. With free registration, you can subscribe to favorite groups and
create your own public or private Google groups. Figure 16.4 shows the alt.os.linux.suse
group in Konqueror.
One important difference from the DejaNews archive: Google Groups does not carry newsgroups
where people post binary code or multimedia files. This excludes, among other
things, the entire alt.binaries hierarchy. So you will need another Usenet reader to locate clip
art posted to Usenet.
When reading Usenet postings, your client makes it easy to respond, either by email or as
a public follow-up posting.
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