From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2019-01-01 10:08:30 +0000, John Hill said:   
      
   > Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >   
   >> The soc.genealogy.britain groupon GoogleGroups carries the following   
   >> notice:   
   >>   
   >> =====   
   >> Banned Content Warning   
   >> The group that you are attempting to view (soc.genealogy.britain) has   
   >> been identified as containing spam, malware or other malicious   
   >> content. Content in this group is now limited to view-only mode for   
   >> those with access.   
   >>   
   >> Group owners can request an appeal after they have taken steps to   
   >> clean up potentially offensive content in the forum. For more   
   >> information about content policies on Google Groups, please see our   
   >> Help Centre article on abuse and our Terms of Service.   
   >> =====   
   >>   
   >> It seems to me that the people at Google have evaded the issue. Most   
   >> of the spammers are those with gmail addresses, and all they wuill do   
   >> is move to other groups and destroy them. What they need to do is ban   
   >> the spammers, not ban the group.   
   >   
   > Agree.   
   >   
   > Is there a "group owner" for soc.genealogy.britain? There certainly is   
   > no moderator (as we have seen) - nor woud I be willing to take on the   
   > job!   
   >   
   > Mind you, Google Groups is not Usenet, much as it would like people to   
   > think it is, and  it seem to me that soc.genealogy.britain is working   
   > very nicely for people who have proper usenet readers.   
      
   Yes. I think if we lose the Google Groupers we shall not have much   
   trouble bearing the loss. We might even rejoice.   
      
      
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