Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:

: Google.com says that we've had 133 views over the past 5 hours, which
: is 26.6 views per hour. For comparison, another group I hang out on
: has had 742 views over the past 21 hours, which is only 35.3 views per
: hour, a slight increase, and that group is quite lively.

Do people actually use google to access usenet?

I did, to access several newsgroups that still have not appeared
on my normal ISP's news server, such as rec.boats.paddle.whitewater.
But the Groups.Google interface is SO BAAAAD and SO SLOOOOOOOW
that I gave up.

Are those Google views per hour accounting for Groups.Google only?