Re: Need help for Engineering Management project

["Steve" <nobodyhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> <clay.maffett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>> Usenet was born before I was; I know what it is and just
>> didn't realize what Google Groups actually did.  Sorry, Bill.
>
> While some pedants and purists prefer that people use newsreaders to
> access
> the net and persecute those that don't, I'm not sure that's a pressing
> requirement anymore. A while back old-timers used to scoff at those with
> an
> AOL email addresses as clueless newbies.  That dubious torch has passed
> the
> Google Groups.  (-:  Google doesn't make the distinction very clear
> between
> the groups they sponsor and the Usenet groups they index.  Your mistake is
> one that thousands of others have made because Google likes it that way!
> It
> makes it seems as if they own Usenet.

You are forgetting top posting and the use of Outlook Express.  However,
clearly the most reviled and mocked users come not from AOL or Google, but
WebTV.