Yahoo Groups - disaster/averted

[dungrollin]

> Carolyn:
 I freely admit I have just spent a couple of hours absolutely 
fuming with rage. I agree it is a stupid approach, but at least it 
works for now. 

Dot:
Actually, I find fuming with rage to be rather a sensible approach 
on occasion.  I just sent this to Yahoo feedback (typos and all in 
my furious haste), which was rather therapeutic:

Ye Gods, the workings of the Yahoo mind defy logic. The web-access 
interface was never easy to use, but now that you've done away with 
displaying the message numbers next to the subject heading it's 
blisteringly painful to find anything in a group's archives. 

The deplorable inadequacies of the Yahoo 'search feature' are 
legend, of course. But now you've even succeeded in making it *more* 
difficult for those of us who go to the lengths of keeping a written 
record of post numbers of interest. We have to fiddle around with 
the URL to get where we want to go, and we can't tell whereabouts in 
the archives we are unless we open a message and check the message 
number in the URL. And now clicking `next' (a function which is now 
delightfully well-hidden at the bottom of the page) takes you to the 
previously numbered message, and clicking `previous' takes you to 
the next numbered message.  Where are your 
brains? 'Counterintuitive' doesn't go quite far enough - 'bloody 
idiotic' is a far better description.

I cannot stress enough how appallingly dreadful I find the new 
format, and (though I never *ever* thought I'd see myself typing 
this) how delighted I would be to return to the old system.