Maybe I shouldn't touch this with a barge pole, but...
This is not a Google Group, it is a Usenet group. Apparently 300 people have registered to read it through Google, but there will be many more readers who do not use Google. I don't know how many, nobody does, there is no way to tell. Of course this makes the reader/contributor ratio even lower, but...
No. Do you read newspapers? How often do you write a letter to the editor? Of course you'd expect a higher ratio here, but so what? The "right" ratio is enough people saying things of interest to keep a fair number of people reading (and sometimes responding!).
Patronise? you must be joking. And as for having the faintest idea, this whole thing is a wonderful demonstration of your own ignorance.
NNTP is a protocol, as its name says, not an application.
'usernet'? - you might at least try to get the name right!
Accounts? - you don't seem to know the difference between the account you have with some provider to allow you to to access newsgroups (free ones exist, but usually have some limitation or other) and the software you do have on your computer to fetch, read, and send messages, which may be paid or free, and which you may already have (Outlook Express for example).
Again, you don't know the difference between the reader program and the account.
I'm not insisting you are wrong about the speed, but I don't even think it's relevant.
Do you know another? And if you want to wind down you should give up writing long posts which are at best misleading.
Well, yes it is, but the attitude is common because so many people who post through Google parade their ignorance of the nature of the group, and break long-established conventions for messages and replies because the Google interface makes it easy to do the wrong thing.
RSS (abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format.
And that is an acknowledged quote from Wikipedia!
Or you can just make up a different one every time (but I don't think Google will let you do that).
Good grief, I can't find anything to say about that one since I don't what to start criticising grammar here.
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Request for Comments, formalized memoranda addressing Internet standards (Wikipedia again). Very few are about netiquette. The majority specify actual technical standards. (I will assume that "IFC" is just a typo.)
Your response (if any) to this post will probably make up my mind on the subject of whether you are a troll.
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