On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 11:29:59 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna <henhanna@gmail.com> said:

> in TB (ThunderBird), Middle-pane -- (unlike GG) there's no Message-count for each thread
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> in TB (ThunderBird), there's a list of all the thread-titles in the Middle-pane, and
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> unlike GG, there's no indication of the number of Msgs in each thread!

If you don't like it, you can always go back to Google Groups. Oh, wait...

On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:58:33 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 11:29:59 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna <henhanna@gmail.com> said:
>> in TB (ThunderBird), Middle-pane -- (unlike GG) there's no Message-count for each thread
>> in TB (ThunderBird), there's a list of all the thread-titles in the Middle-pane, and
>> unlike GG, there's no indication of the number of Msgs in each thread!
>
>If you don't like it, you can always go back to Google Groups. Oh, wait...

wayback machine . . . just for the fun of it

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://groups.google.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20010301000000*/https://groups.google.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20010217005302/https://groups.google.com/
>Google Acquires Deja's Usenet Archive
>~ Google Releases Beta Service in Transition ~
>Google Inc. has acquired significant assets from Deja.com, including its archive
>of more than 500 million messages--a terabyte of human conversation dating back
>to 1995.
>Since reaching agreement with Deja, Google has been working non-stop to restore
>access to these messages, which form the largest archive of newsgroups on the net.
>While developing a more fully-featured service, Google has released a beta version
>that allows high speed, high quality access to newsgroup postings already archived
>by Google since August 2000.
>For more information about the transition from Deja to Google, please read Google's
>press release.
>Note to Deja users:
>The current beta service available on this site lacks browsing, posting and many
>other important features. We are working hard to provide these. Due to the
>logistical and financial constraints of the Deja service, there was no viable way
>to keep the service going. Now that the Usenet data has been safely archived, we
>are focusing our efforts on implementing these important features. Please bear
>with us during this transition.
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