From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2019-01-03 01:28:36 +0000, Steve Hayes said:   
      
   > On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 10:08:30 +0000, nemo@erewhon.invalid (John Hill)   
   > wrote:   
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   > I doubt that there can be a "Group Owner" sinbce no one "owns" usenet   
   > newsgroups. Google decided, on their own initiativew to gate usenet   
   > groups to their GoogleGroups system.   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Indeed.   
   >   
   > The advantage of having newsgroups gated there is that they can be   
   > discovered by people who are interested in genealogy. The   
   > disadvantage, of course, is that they can also be discovered by   
   > spammers.   
      
   You don't need Google Groups for that. Anyone who knows about Usenet   
   can find this group by searching through the complete list of groups.   
   That's how I found it.   
      
      
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