From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 03/01/2019 10:05, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   > On 2019-01-03 01:28:36 +0000, Steve Hayes said:   
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   >> 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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   A lot of people don't realise that.   
      
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