From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 10:08:30 +0000, nemo@erewhon.invalid (John Hill)   
   wrote:   
      
   >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!   
      
   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.   
      
      
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