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Andy wrote:

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Why is there no Win 7 group ?

There won't be for Google Groupers. You'll have to connect to a real
Usenet provider using an NNTP client.

In case you're wondering, both can be free; for the client I usually
recommend Thunderbird (not because it's the best but because it is
widely used - so there will be plenty of people who can answer questions
you have about it, and most news providers have notes on how to set it
up); for the provider, there are a couple of free ones, one one-off
payment one (Teranews, though I think it might have died), and one ("the
Berlin Server", or "NIN") which is very cheap - something like 10 euros
a year. (Plus more expensive ones - Giganews, for example.) [I use one
of the free ones.]

Getting away from Google Groups is one of the best things you can do as
a newsgroup user; GG's user interface is such that its users (especially
gmail users, for some reason) often post followups (a) thinking they're
sending a private reply to the previous poster (b) not realising the
post they're responding to is ancient and the OP probably isn't taking
the 'group any more. (For some reason we get a lot of that sort of post
in soc.genealogy.britain: the poster starts "Hi Dave" or similar, and
isn't aware that Dave's post was dated 199x. Nearly always from a gmail
address - which is not to say that gmailers are dim, only that GG's user
interface, especially for gmailers apparently, is terrible.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I'll miss it when it goes, and I suspect nothing of its ilk will ever come
along again, at least on mainstream television. It's too clever, which, in a
world that worships idiocy, is its death warrant.
Alison Graham RT 2016/2/20-26