Spreading the word about D

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Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:g3njpj$2gh6$2 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> What's better about google groups? (I find the Thunderbird newsreader 
>> better than g.g.)
> 
> For me, the worst thing about my newsgroup reader is that it's on my local 
> machine.  All the state about what I've read and haven't is stored here --  
> on my Windows partition of my desktop.  If I want to read the NGs from 
> anywhere else: my laptop, my Linux partition, someone else's computer, a 
> public computer -- it's impossible to tell what I have and haven't read. 
> It's also frustrating because I have to have a newsgroup client, which isn't 
> always possible on public machines, or else I face the cold wrath of the 
> horrible web interface.
> 
> If I could access everything through Google, bam, all problems solved.  I'd 
> even be able to read the newsgroups on my cell phone.
> 
> In short: when it comes to the internets, distributed state sucks. 

Seconded. That's why I definitely prefer mailing lists over newsgroups: 
all my mail is stored on a IMAP server, so the read/unread state is 
centralized.