Shopping on line can be easy, simple and save you lots of money. It can also take a lot of your time, frustrate you, and result in unwanted purchases. Now the same can be said for regular high street shopping, but with the vast opportunity presented by the Internet it will pay you to spend a few minutes reading this and understanding how to better optimize your Google Groups shopping experience:

1. Compare - without doubt the biggest advantage that the Google Groups offers shoppers today is the ability to compare thousands of Google Groups at a time. This is a great thing, but not necessarily all the time! Too much can be daunting at times so take advantage of the great comparison sites and where possible let them do the hard work for you.

2. Research - if it has been said it will be on the internet. Ignorance is no longer a justifiable reason for buying the wrong thing. Take the time to research in detail everything that you could possible want to know about

3. Testimonials - don't know anybody that has bought a Google Groups? Wrong! If the Google Groups is good the internet will let you know. Use the Internet as a friend and get testimonials before you buy.

4. Questions - Got a question about Google Groups then search the Forums, FAQ's, Blogs etc. Don't be afraid to ask .....

5. Reputation - Never heard of the company selling Google Groups? Don't worry, no reason why you should know every company in the world, but you know someone that does! Use the internet to find out what people are saying about Google Groups and build up a picture of their reputation for sales, returns, customer service, delivery etc.

6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your Google Groups wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.

7. Feedback - happy with your Google Groups then let people know, after all you are depending on others people input in your buying decision, so why not give a little back.

8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the Google Groups site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site

9. Contact - got a question about Google Groups, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.

10. Payment - ready to pay for your Google Groups, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.

{{Infobox Software | name = Google Groups| logo =| screenshot = | caption = Google Groups screenshot| developer = Google (web-based application)| genre = [Newsgroups] where groups of people have discussions about common interests. Internet users can find discussion groups related to their interests and participate in Threaded discussioned conversations, either through the Google Groups WorldWideWeb interface, or by e-mail. They can also start new groups. Google Groups also includes an archive of Usenet newsgroup postings dating back to 1981 and supports reading and posting to Usenet groups. Users can also set up mailing list archives for e-mail lists that are hosted elsewhere.

History In February 2001, Google acquired Deja News, which provided a search engine to access an archive of Usenet newsgroup articles. "Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com", Google, 12 February 2001 Users were then able to access these Usenet newsgroups through the new Google Groups interface.By the end of 2001 the archive had been supplemented with other archived messages dating back to 11 May 1981. "20 Year Archive on Google Groups", Google, 11 December 2001 "Full Usenet archive now available", pandia, 29 April 2001 "Digital history saved", BBC, 14 December 2001 Shortly after, Google released a new version, which allowed users to create their own (non-Usenet) groups.

In February 2006, Google modified the interface of Google Groups, adding Configuration file and post ratings.

Kinds of groups hosted by Google Google provides two distinct kinds of groups: traditional Usenet groups, and non-Usenet groups that are more similar to mailing lists. The Google Groups user interface and help messages do not use a distinct name for mailing-list style groups, referring to them as Google Groups.

The two kinds of groups differ both in the technology used and how they are governed.

A Usenet group is decentralized and not hosted by any single organization. Google archives messages posted to Usenet groups and provides a web interface for accessing them, but many other organizations also provide access on an equal basis. Many organizations other than Google allow Usenet groups to be read with news reader software that uses the NNTP protocol. Most Usenet groups are unmoderated, which means that nobody controls who may post to them. (See Usenet.)

A regular Google Group is hosted by Google, although some may be archived elsewhere. These groups can be accessed using a web browser or by subscribing to receive email, but can't be accessed using a Usenet news reader. They have one or more owners who decide who is allowed to subscribe to the group and whether non-members can access the group. This form of governance is similar to that provided by many other mailing list providers (See Mailing list.)

The Google Groups user interface encourages users to create new mailing-list-style groups, but does not provide any way to create a Usenet group.

Interface features Groups search Google Groups allows users to use Google Search to easily search all groups with the search box at the top. The search will return the posts which most match the search query, and if any groups match, they will be displayed at the top of the results with a link to the Google Groups directory.

There is also a feature, which searches the group in real time when writing a new message - in a box titled "Have you looked at these messages?", probably to decrease the number of threads dealing with the same topics over and over again.

Directory Google Groups has a directory (databases) of most Google groups and Usenet groups. Some group owners have set their groups to not appear in the directory. The directory organizes groups by topic, region, language, activity level and number of members.

Profiles Users may create public profiles which display their name, nickname, location, title, industry, website, blog and quote, as well as the most recent posts they made. Their profiles are accessible to anyone by clicking on "View Profile" beside any of their posts.

Joining/subscribing to a group Subscribing to a group offers the following benefits:

There are four subscription options, Email, Digest Email, Abridged Email and No Email:

Reading a group archive/list of threads There are two options for viewing the list of threads: "topic list" and "topic summary". Both show the topic title, date/time, number of new messages and number of total messages. "Topic summary" also shows the first few lines of the originating post and its author, and it's the default view. "Topic list" shows the author of the last post and the number of authors who have posted in the thread.

Posting and reading in a thread In the default view, Google Groups displays posts in a thread in pages of 25 posts each. However, in "view as tree" mode, Google Groups displays posts in pages of 10 posts each. If there are new messages in a thread since the user last checked, clicking on the thread name jumps to the first new post. Otherwise, it jumps to the last page.

Above every post is a box displaying the poster's nickname, the post's rating, the date the post was sent, and a "show options" link, which opens up options for removing the post (only if the user is the poster, a manager or owner), reporting it to Google, finding all posts by the same author, printing the post, forwarding the post to a friend, and viewing the message headers (which includes the IP-address).

Rating posts A user can rate a post with 1 to 5 out of 5 stars. A post's rating is based on the average of all the user ratings it gets, and a thread's rating is based on the average rating of all the posts in the thread, and is displayed next to the thread author (in View with message text mode) or thread name (in Viewing titles only mode). Users may not rate their own posts.

Starring threads In the thread list, there is a star next to every thread. Once clicked on, the star turns yellow and the thread is "starred", and it appears in the user's "My starred topics" list. A user may star up to 200 topics.

E-mail masking To prevent scammers or spammers from harvesting e-mail addresses from a group, Google masks e-mail addresses by replacing the last three letters of a username in an e-mail address with Full stops. To view the full e-mail address, one has to click on the periods and enter a verification code to prove that one is human, after which a page will load with the full e-mail addresses displayed. However, e-mail addresses are only masked when viewing a group through the web interface. When viewing posts through e-mail or a Usenet newsreader, e-mail addresses are not masked. Google Groups does not allow users to obfuscate or munge their e-mail addresses.

Creating mailing-list groups Google Groups allows users to easily create their own groups. During the creation process, the user is prompted for a group name, e-mail address, description, and access setting, and then adds or invites members to the new group.

Managing groups A Forum moderator (owner or manager) can edit the group's name, description and e-mail address, get a promotion box, add or remove categories to the group, modify the access settings (access of memberships, invites, archives and directory (databases) listing), modify posting and delivery settings (posting privileges and moderation, availability of replies and subject Prefix (linguistics)es), modify related groups, and browse the membership list (invite, add, ban (law) or electronic mailing list members, make them a manager or owner, and change their delivery type).

Adding or inviting members Members of a group with the privileges to do so can invite or add new members to the group. In the process, they will be asked to set a subscription type for the new member, and enter a welcome message. The new member will receive a notification e-mail. People who do not have a Google Account may be invited or added, but they need to create a Google Account to accept the invite and post to the group see http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=46438&ctx=sibling .

Creating and updating group web pages In the beta version of October 5 2006, Google announced a new web 2.0 interface and the Pages feature that is now available for all new groups. There is an AJAX wysiwyg editor to create group pages that can be edited by group members or group managers. Pages can link to each other and Google keeps versions of pages, so this feature is a sort of Wiki within the group. Comments added at bottom of pages appear also in the Discussion section of the group. This beta version was later released out of beta status on January 24, 2007.

Official Google Groups Google has created several official help groups for some of its services, such as Gmail. In these groups, users can ask and answer questions about the relevant Google service. Each official group has a Google representative who occasionally responds to queries. Google representatives always have a green G symbol in their nicknames.

Official groups are divided into three or more subgroups. Non-official groups created by users may not be divided into subgroups, although this feature is commonly requested by users. The main group shows a "viewing titles only" interface for the first few threads of each of the subgroups.

In official groups, there are only two subscrption options: "Abridged Email" and "No Email", and it is not possible for two members to have the same nickname. There is a filter which replaces any e-mail addresses posted in a message with address; however, it is easy to bypass the filter by adding spaces in between, or when viewing the post, one can see it in the 'Reply with Quote' mode. The e-mail addresses of members who post in an official group are not visible to others through the "show options" or "view profile" links. Members who post to official groups have a separate profile where their e-mail address is hidden and only official groups are listed.

Some official groups include:

Google also uses Google Groups to host their Google Friends and Google Page Creator Updates mailing lists, which are announcement-only groups where only moderators can post.

Technical URL and e-mail address of a group When creating a group, the owner must specify a group name which will be part of the group's URL and e-mail address. The "username" can be changed later (see Managing Groups).

The URL of a Google group is http://groups.google.com/group/ followed by the group's name.

The e-mail address of a Google group is the group's name followed by @googlegroups.com

For example, if the group's name is XYZ, the group's URL will be http://groups.google.com/group/XYZ and the e-mail address will be xyz@googlegroups.com

Google Groups vs. Usenet Google Groups provides access to Usenet newsgroups as well. When AOL discontinued access to Usenet, it recommended Google Groups instead.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/25/aol_cutsoff_newsgroups/

Google Groups honors the "X-No-Archive: Yes" header field, and removes messages with it (in the message header or as first line of the message body) from its archive after 7 days.

The URL for accessing Usenet newsgroups through Google Groups is http://groups.google.com/group/ followed by the group's hierarchy. For example, the Usenet group alt.games.neopets's URL is http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.neopets.

With some tricks, Google Groups can search related newsgroups for a given topic, an example is the shorthand (redirect) for searches in net-abuse groups: http://purl.net/net/abuse/topic http://purl.net/net/abuse/google

Criticism Google Groups is often accused of lacking security. Many Internet trolls, Spam (electronic)mers and Flamingrs have joined Google Groups to carry out their intended purpose without being identified. There are cases of people who join groups, request managerial privileges, and then delete the entire group before moving on to another group. The recent introduction of profiles is evidently intended to deal with this problem.

On 16 October 2003, John Wiley & Sons sent a letter to Google after discovering that copyrighted text from a book they published was made available for download on a Google group.

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{{Infobox Software | name = Google Groups| logo =| screenshot = | caption = Google Groups screenshot| developer = Google (web-based application)| genre = [Newsgroups] where groups of people have discussions about common interests. Internet users can find discussion groups related to their interests and participate in Threaded discussioned conversations, either through the Google Groups WorldWideWeb interface, or by e-mail. They can also start new groups. Google Groups also includes an archive of Usenet newsgroup postings dating back to 1981 and supports reading and posting to Usenet groups. Users can also set up mailing list archives for e-mail lists that are hosted elsewhere.

History In February 2001, Google acquired Deja News, which provided a search engine to access an archive of Usenet newsgroup articles. "Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com", Google, 12 February 2001 Users were then able to access these Usenet newsgroups through the new Google Groups interface.By the end of 2001 the archive had been supplemented with other archived messages dating back to 11 May 1981. "20 Year Archive on Google Groups", Google, 11 December 2001 "Full Usenet archive now available", pandia, 29 April 2001 "Digital history saved", BBC, 14 December 2001 Shortly after, Google released a new version, which allowed users to create their own (non-Usenet) groups.

In February 2006, Google modified the interface of Google Groups, adding Configuration file and post ratings.

Kinds of groups hosted by Google Google provides two distinct kinds of groups: traditional Usenet groups, and non-Usenet groups that are more similar to mailing lists. The Google Groups user interface and help messages do not use a distinct name for mailing-list style groups, referring to them as Google Groups.

The two kinds of groups differ both in the technology used and how they are governed.

A Usenet group is decentralized and not hosted by any single organization. Google archives messages posted to Usenet groups and provides a web interface for accessing them, but many other organizations also provide access on an equal basis. Many organizations other than Google allow Usenet groups to be read with news reader software that uses the NNTP protocol. Most Usenet groups are unmoderated, which means that nobody controls who may post to them. (See Usenet.)

A regular Google Group is hosted by Google, although some may be archived elsewhere. These groups can be accessed using a web browser or by subscribing to receive email, but can't be accessed using a Usenet news reader. They have one or more owners who decide who is allowed to subscribe to the group and whether non-members can access the group. This form of governance is similar to that provided by many other mailing list providers (See Mailing list.)

The Google Groups user interface encourages users to create new mailing-list-style groups, but does not provide any way to create a Usenet group.

Interface features Groups search Google Groups allows users to use Google Search to easily search all groups with the search box at the top. The search will return the posts which most match the search query, and if any groups match, they will be displayed at the top of the results with a link to the Google Groups directory.

There is also a feature, which searches the group in real time when writing a new message - in a box titled "Have you looked at these messages?", probably to decrease the number of threads dealing with the same topics over and over again.

Directory Google Groups has a directory (databases) of most Google groups and Usenet groups. Some group owners have set their groups to not appear in the directory. The directory organizes groups by topic, region, language, activity level and number of members.

Profiles Users may create public profiles which display their name, nickname, location, title, industry, website, blog and quote, as well as the most recent posts they made. Their profiles are accessible to anyone by clicking on "View Profile" beside any of their posts.

Joining/subscribing to a group Subscribing to a group offers the following benefits:

There are four subscription options, Email, Digest Email, Abridged Email and No Email:

Reading a group archive/list of threads There are two options for viewing the list of threads: "topic list" and "topic summary". Both show the topic title, date/time, number of new messages and number of total messages. "Topic summary" also shows the first few lines of the originating post and its author, and it's the default view. "Topic list" shows the author of the last post and the number of authors who have posted in the thread.

Posting and reading in a thread In the default view, Google Groups displays posts in a thread in pages of 25 posts each. However, in "view as tree" mode, Google Groups displays posts in pages of 10 posts each. If there are new messages in a thread since the user last checked, clicking on the thread name jumps to the first new post. Otherwise, it jumps to the last page.

Above every post is a box displaying the poster's nickname, the post's rating, the date the post was sent, and a "show options" link, which opens up options for removing the post (only if the user is the poster, a manager or owner), reporting it to Google, finding all posts by the same author, printing the post, forwarding the post to a friend, and viewing the message headers (which includes the IP-address).

Rating posts A user can rate a post with 1 to 5 out of 5 stars. A post's rating is based on the average of all the user ratings it gets, and a thread's rating is based on the average rating of all the posts in the thread, and is displayed next to the thread author (in View with message text mode) or thread name (in Viewing titles only mode). Users may not rate their own posts.

Starring threads In the thread list, there is a star next to every thread. Once clicked on, the star turns yellow and the thread is "starred", and it appears in the user's "My starred topics" list. A user may star up to 200 topics.

E-mail masking To prevent scammers or spammers from harvesting e-mail addresses from a group, Google masks e-mail addresses by replacing the last three letters of a username in an e-mail address with Full stops. To view the full e-mail address, one has to click on the periods and enter a verification code to prove that one is human, after which a page will load with the full e-mail addresses displayed. However, e-mail addresses are only masked when viewing a group through the web interface. When viewing posts through e-mail or a Usenet newsreader, e-mail addresses are not masked. Google Groups does not allow users to obfuscate or munge their e-mail addresses.

Creating mailing-list groups Google Groups allows users to easily create their own groups. During the creation process, the user is prompted for a group name, e-mail address, description, and access setting, and then adds or invites members to the new group.

Managing groups A Forum moderator (owner or manager) can edit the group's name, description and e-mail address, get a promotion box, add or remove categories to the group, modify the access settings (access of memberships, invites, archives and directory (databases) listing), modify posting and delivery settings (posting privileges and moderation, availability of replies and subject Prefix (linguistics)es), modify related groups, and browse the membership list (invite, add, ban (law) or electronic mailing list members, make them a manager or owner, and change their delivery type).

Adding or inviting members Members of a group with the privileges to do so can invite or add new members to the group. In the process, they will be asked to set a subscription type for the new member, and enter a welcome message. The new member will receive a notification e-mail. People who do not have a Google Account may be invited or added, but they need to create a Google Account to accept the invite and post to the group see http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=46438&ctx=sibling .

Creating and updating group web pages In the beta version of October 5 2006, Google announced a new web 2.0 interface and the Pages feature that is now available for all new groups. There is an AJAX wysiwyg editor to create group pages that can be edited by group members or group managers. Pages can link to each other and Google keeps versions of pages, so this feature is a sort of Wiki within the group. Comments added at bottom of pages appear also in the Discussion section of the group. This beta version was later released out of beta status on January 24, 2007.

Official Google Groups Google has created several official help groups for some of its services, such as Gmail. In these groups, users can ask and answer questions about the relevant Google service. Each official group has a Google representative who occasionally responds to queries. Google representatives always have a green G symbol in their nicknames.

Official groups are divided into three or more subgroups. Non-official groups created by users may not be divided into subgroups, although this feature is commonly requested by users. The main group shows a "viewing titles only" interface for the first few threads of each of the subgroups.

In official groups, there are only two subscrption options: "Abridged Email" and "No Email", and it is not possible for two members to have the same nickname. There is a filter which replaces any e-mail addresses posted in a message with address; however, it is easy to bypass the filter by adding spaces in between, or when viewing the post, one can see it in the 'Reply with Quote' mode. The e-mail addresses of members who post in an official group are not visible to others through the "show options" or "view profile" links. Members who post to official groups have a separate profile where their e-mail address is hidden and only official groups are listed.

Some official groups include:

Google also uses Google Groups to host their Google Friends and Google Page Creator Updates mailing lists, which are announcement-only groups where only moderators can post.

Technical URL and e-mail address of a group When creating a group, the owner must specify a group name which will be part of the group's URL and e-mail address. The "username" can be changed later (see Managing Groups).

The URL of a Google group is http://groups.google.com/group/ followed by the group's name.

The e-mail address of a Google group is the group's name followed by @googlegroups.com

For example, if the group's name is XYZ, the group's URL will be http://groups.google.com/group/XYZ and the e-mail address will be xyz@googlegroups.com

Google Groups vs. Usenet Google Groups provides access to Usenet newsgroups as well. When AOL discontinued access to Usenet, it recommended Google Groups instead.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/25/aol_cutsoff_newsgroups/

Google Groups honors the "X-No-Archive: Yes" header field, and removes messages with it (in the message header or as first line of the message body) from its archive after 7 days.

The URL for accessing Usenet newsgroups through Google Groups is http://groups.google.com/group/ followed by the group's hierarchy. For example, the Usenet group alt.games.neopets's URL is http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.neopets.

With some tricks, Google Groups can search related newsgroups for a given topic, an example is the shorthand (redirect) for searches in net-abuse groups: http://purl.net/net/abuse/topic http://purl.net/net/abuse/google

Criticism Google Groups is often accused of lacking security. Many Internet trolls, Spam (electronic)mers and Flamingrs have joined Google Groups to carry out their intended purpose without being identified. There are cases of people who join groups, request managerial privileges, and then delete the entire group before moving on to another group. The recent introduction of profiles is evidently intended to deal with this problem.

On 16 October 2003, John Wiley & Sons sent a letter to Google after discovering that copyrighted text from a book they published was made available for download on a Google group.

References

See also

External links



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