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 :I agree. Obviously that edit was made by someone who had the complaint personally and it really has no place on an informative site. Google have no reason to tell people they happen to be on news groups because the site functions identically none the less. What should be mentioned is that only stupid people care and it is actually a excellent google feature that allows people to have an easy to use Newsgrouping service   

 ==Web 2.0== 
 Clearly given how suseptable the stupid, and therefore the general population, are to media bollocs i decided to question this instead of changing it. Clearly saying Newsgroups are similar to Web 2.0 is a statement without meaning. Even if one was to believe that there was any difference in the collaberation online now (apart from the large number of idiots now using the internet) Web 2.0 is not a thing (protocol, platform, library or service) that can be compared to only one of the many ""Web 0.5"" services. If it was to be compared to a single modern online forum and mentioned that Newsgroups were normally far more productive then the comment would be slightly more meaningful. Despite my comments about Web 2.0 please don't take this as an argument against it even being real, i honestly feel that the comparison doesn't fit any which way.  "