Thing #42: Google Groups / Usenet

Google Groups is not a site that I have found useful. When I searched for some of my interests I didn't find anything useful - and with a hobby of pottery it can't be the subject that is the problem.


Yahoo! Groups is a site that I find is much more organised and interesting. I'm a member of a number of Yahoo! groups for authors I like and reading discussion groups as well as some for travelling, pottery, movies and other interests. What I really like about the groups is that they are easy to browse and I can subscribe to the discussions in a number of ways - those groups that have a lot of posts and I can choose to only receive messages from the owner, if a group is moderately busy I get a daily email of all the posts for that day, and for the quiet discussion groups I received all the individual posts.

I like discussion groups to be like my RSS reader account - I don't always to participate and comment, but I like to have good content to browse through and keep up to date. Even though I didn't find the librarians group to be that great, I'll give Google Groups a second try for other areas of interest.