On Monday, March 19, 2012 1:07:01 PM UTC-4, oldyork90 wrote:
Looks like Google Groups is going the "pretty is better" Microsoft
route; colors, fonts and less density. Too bad. I really don't like
these user groups that are icon based and formatted like they're going
to the Ball. Anyway... that's just me. (Long live simple text.
Long live the EYE) hahahahha.

I'm not sure if I like it completely, but I have noticed that spam seems to have been reduced with the transition to the new Google Groups. Perhaps they improved their spam filters as part of the change. If so, I am quite happy with the change.