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   Evertjan. to Steve Hayes   
   Re: Google Groups   
   04 Jan 19 09:30:25   
   
   From: exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote on 04 Jan 2019 in   
   soc.genealogy.britain:   
      
   > On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:05:00 +0100, Athel Cornish-Bowden   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>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.   
      
   There is, I suspect,   
   no such thing as a "complete list of Usenet Newsgroups".   
      
   > Except that a lot of ISPs who claim to offer a "full" Internet service   
   > seem to have dropped support for news and no longer have a news   
   > server, leaving many people with no option but to find an external   
   > server, if they even know that such things exist.   
      
   Lack of navigational knowledge should be countered by providing routing   
   information, not by offering inferior detours.   
      
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