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Message:: [QUOTE="Reid Goldsborough, post: 476, member: 34"]RCC is no different from any other of the tens of thousands of unmoderated Usenet news groups (discussion groups). You'll find friendly useful discussion and heated debates. The nature of the Internet -- people communicating over distance typically without seeing or hearing one another -- brings out more of the debating/competitive element of communication, and has since the Internet's inception. And there's the element of reliability. You'll find wildly inaccurate information on Usenet (sometimes even from people claiming that they give much attention to detail and accuracy), and you'll find good information you can trust and take with you. The vast majority of people who access Usenet do so through a newsreader, either a dedicated on such as Forte Agent or one built into an email program such as Microsoft Outlook Express. Google Groups is useful for access messages older than a month or so and in a pinch when your ISP's news server goes down. But using it for following discussions on a day to day basis, like using any Web service for any other purpose, is much slower and clunkier than using a program that resides on your own computer.[/QUOTE]