Greg Hughes has a great post on the new beta of Goggle Groups 2. This is a great resource for tracking down hard to find answers or the essential factoid for a tough trivia question - years and years of newgroups posts at your fingertips...
http://www.greghughes.net/rant/PermaLink,guid,db9aba02-f76b-4ac7-abf2-dc930cdec2e8.aspx | Comments
http://groups-beta.google.com/
The beta is on for the next version of Google Groups. Not only does it look a lot like GMail, when I go to the site, it logs me on with my Google GMail account ID automagically. I can mark topics with a star (
) and then click on the "My starred topics" link to do a quick search list of anything I've previously flagged with the star - a lot like the way it works in GMail, go figure. :-)
Plus, I was able to create a new group right there on the groups web site, in about 2 minutes. Worth keeping an eye on.