Every once in a while I feel the need to check for something in the Microsoft
Usenet groups. Every time I'm rooting around in there I'm struck by how much great information goes through there that I never see. I also see tons of questions I know the answers to and could provide help. My problem is that I don't reliably check these groups so most of this passes me by. I was stumbling around the net one day and I found that
Google Groups has that little orange XML icon at the bottom of their group feeds. This means you can use your favorite RSS reader to keep up with news groups all in the same window. This isn't a problem on my laptop where I use
JetBrain's Omea (capable of retrieving NNTP and RSS) but at work I use a
lite browser-based reader. This little revelation enables me to keep up at work.