From: tony@proctor_NoMore_SPAM.net   
      
   On 03/01/2019 11:27, MB wrote:   
   > On 03/01/2019 10:40, Graeme Wall wrote:   
   >> On 03/01/2019 10:05, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   >>> 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:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> [ … ]   
   >>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> A lot of people don't realise that.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > It is rather like the "old days" when USENET was dominated by academic users   
   who always seemed to resent anyone else using it even though they were   
   > getting access free at their work when others were probably paying in some   
   way.  It was full of petty arguments about things like top and bottom posting.   
   >   
   > Shouldn't we be trying to attract new users to ensure its survival, so   
   everything does not disappear onto Farcebook?   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   It's true that s.g.britain has waned since its heyday, but have a look at   
   s.g.computing -- it's virtually dead. Is that a reflection on the likes of   
   Google Groups and specialist forums being more convenient to the subject than   
   USENET?   
      
   Tony   
      
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