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John Resig: ‘Google Groups Is Dead’
Public groups are swarmed by spammers. As Andy Baio quipped , “if you want to know which areas of big companies are being ignored, watch for spam taking over.”  ★ 
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Google Groups, Killed by Spam?
Google Blogoscoped — ... John Resig lists reasons why Google Groups is losing the battle against spam. Google Groups is dead, John argues saying the primary problem with the service “boils down to a systemic failure to contain and manage spam. Only a bottom-up overhaul of the Google Groups system would be able to fix the problems that every Google Group faces.” Here’s one problem John lists, and I recently experienced this myself (posting the same message multiple times after it failed to show up): ...

Google Groups Fail: JQuery Dumping Google Over Spam, Interface Problems
Webmonkey — ... John Resig, the lead developer of JQuery, a popular JavaScript Library for developing complex web applications, recently posted a sharply critical look at Google Groups. ...

Google Groups Fail: JQuery Dumps Google Over Spam, Interface Problems
Webmonkey — ... John Resig, the lead developer of JQuery, a popular JavaScript Library for developing complex web applications, recently posted a sharply critical look at Google Groups. ...

Could Google be killing Google Groups over and over again?
Betanews — ... in the browser market, Mozilla engineer John Resig -- the co-creator of the jQuery library that is revolutionizing JavaScript -- pronounced Google Groups dead from his vantage point, in a blog post that could carry some real weight. ...

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