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   Athel Cornish-Bowden to All   
   Re: Google Groups   
   04 Jan 19 19:01:37   
   
   From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2019-01-04 17:33:53 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said:   
      
   > In message , Evertjan.   
   >  writes:   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > (As someone else said, that's now a vanishingly tiny proportion of   
   > those who use the internet - especially of those who use the web.)   
   >   
   >>>> 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".   
   >   
   > (-: I suspect he means the list offered by his news client, which is   
   > probably an agglomeration of the lists offered by the news servers he   
   > uses.   
      
   Of course.   
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