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New Google Groups in Beta
qwe writes "Google has apparently launched a new version of their Google Groups, currently in beta. It looks a lot like Gmail. One can attach a star to message threads. One can even create new groups, although they aren't actual Usenet groups."
Now I can start alt.slashdot.first-post
An effective signature identifies a particular user amongst a base of thousands.
Beta test it?
"Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in 30 seconds."
Well, I did my part!
It's a Shame that
Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in 30 seconds.
Keep on occuring
Google is pulling a microsoft by embracing and extending Usenet.
Once you go public you gotta turn evil, it's the law.
No seriously, they can be sued by shareholders if they don't do it!
Capitalism is teh...you decide.
GSpot: surf and organize all your porn in convenient directories. Sort by threads, or lack thereof!
"Is this just useless, or is it expensive as well?"
Add some distributed moderation and Google Groups could become the Slashdot of everything.
Slashdotted! It seems to be having errors pretty consistently... I bet someone is regretting the HTTP-REFERRER they are seeing in the logs
meh
Come one, come all! Sign up for the new Googleweb now! Email! News! Shopping! Message boards! You can do it all at your non-portal, non-access provider, lean, mean, searching machine, website! No need to go anywhere else - we've got it all here! (some delay while our cache is updated.)
Perhaps you should have sent your comments to gro__ps_-__up__por_t@goo__le.c__m
Invites are based on how much the account is used?
Here's what you do: Using Ebay tends to generate a lot of emails. So, when you get invites, sell them on Ebay, and the email that this generates causes you to get more invites, which you then sell on Ebay, etc. etc. etc.
Fuck working, fuck the stock market, selling gmail invites on ebay is the key to early retirement.
Hear recorded Slashdot headlines on your phone! New service beta testing. Just call (248) 434-5508
Please "don't" try to start a newsgroup by posting those codes as a reply.
:)
Actually, please go right ahead
My other car is first.
Of course your answer is yes going by your logic. Otherwise you must be an irate geek!
Show me one free, instant, on-line translation tool that DOES produce sensical translations.
Where's the fun in that?
For instance, let's take a quote. I found this one in someone's signature a while ago.
"The main reason for the downfall of the Roman Empire was, that lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful completion of a C program"
Translate it to English to German:
"der Hauptgrund für den Downfall des römischen Reiches war, dieses mangelnde null, sie hatte keine Weise, erfolgreiche Beendigung eines c-Programms anzuzeigen"
I don't know German, so let's go back to English:
"The Main reason for the case of down OF the novel Empire which, that lacking zero, they had NO way ton indicate successful completion OF A C program"
It's already getting a little garbled, but let's not stop yet. From garbled English to French:
"la raison principale du cas de vers le bas de l'empire de roman que, ce zéro manquer, elles n'a fait indiquer AUCUNE tonne de manière l'accomplissement réussi du programme C de A"
I do know French, and that doesn't look quite right. Let's go back to English again:
"principal reason of the case of to the bottom of the empire of novel that, this zero to miss, they did not make indicate ANY ton in manner the achievement successful of the program C of A"
You could, of course, send the result to Portugeese and back, ending up with:
"main reason of the example to the deep one of the empire of the novel that, this zero to lack, had not made to indicate ANY ton in the way the successful accomplishment it program C of"
Or through Italian, which leaves us with:
"main reason of the example to that deep one of the empire of the novel of that, this zero to difettare of, had not made in order to indicate WHICHEVER ton in the sense the succeeded realization it program C"
Now where would we be if we didn't have Google's Translation sevice to make fun of?
"What good is a newsgroup, alt.mister-anderson, if you are unable to convince administrators to carry it?"
- agentsmith in alt.config