From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   "Jim Leonard"  wrote in message   
   news:1134060905.203347.207210@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
      
   >> > Why do these groups require registration to read the messages?  Posting   
   >> > I can understand, but merely reading?   
   >>   
   >> I just looked at this. Turning on public archive reading makes the email   
   >> addresses of the posters available for scanning so it's probably not a   
   >> great   
   >> idea.   
   >   
   > Google groups hide email addresses automatically...   
      
   But Google has it's problems too, apart from being one of the spam centres   
   of the universe.   
      
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