elaich wrote:
You don't join this group, you participate in it. Do yourself a favor and
"Google" (hate how that word has become part of the lexicon) 'Usenet."
Educate yourself about what you are posting to.

I'd like to note here that while Usenet is generaly unpoliced, except for
moderated groups, Google does such a poor job of preventing SPAM that many
people have set their newsreader programs to automaticly ignore postings
from Google.

This is done by placing a pattern which recognizes Google groups as the source
of the message in a file, called a killfile, which causes the messages to
be "killed". They are not canceled or deleted, just ignored.

So the chance of your postings being read is much smaller if you post from
Google than anywhere else.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM