Google.  Fact is, it's getting harder and harder to access the old Usenet groups without going through Google.  And the Google interface for Usenet is just a piece of crap.  I hate it.  And it bugs me, because I used to really enjoy RBP, along with a handful of other newsgroups.  But now I almost never check in, because the only way I can do it is through Google, and I hate the interface *so bad* that it's not worth it to me.

Timmy and a few other (Scott Weiser comes to mind) didn't help, either.