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from: `geopelia` phildoran{at}xtr
date: 2005-02-09 18:46:00
subject: Re: What is the point of subscribing to a public newsgroup?

"Bruce Morgen"  wrote in message
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> usenet69{at}hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >Is there some sort of a benefit that I missed? I thought anyone could
> >post to these groups, so I don't see any added beefit of being a
> >"member"
> >
> >
> >???
> >
> Subscribing is a newsreader
> switch that allows you to
> read the group -- if you
> read and post with your
> web browser via Google
> Groups, subscribing has no
> meaning.  In any event, it
> doesn't make you a "member"
> of anything -- it's just a
> software option for
> newsreader apps that work
> with traditional newsfeeds.
>
If you are in New Zealand and having trouble with these new Google groups,
you can probably get them from news.xtra.co.nz
I think they are msn groups. You can read them without subscribing.

Google ought to do something to make them easier to find without having to
go through page after page. Maybe have them alphabetical? The old system was
very easy.

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