Andy wrote:
On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 6:59:48 PM UTC-5, Nil wrote:
On 24 Jun 2016, Nil wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

On 24 Jun 2016, Andy wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

Why is there no Win 7 group ?
Why do you think there is no Win 7 group ?
P.S. There is a Win 7 group. Google doesn't carry it.

Bummer.

Wonder why not ?

Andy

Off to find a free USENET server then.

Google seeks to automate everything. The Alt.*
hierarchy, control messages are turned off. The
automation that could have automatically enabled
new groups to appear for you, simply does not exist.
All admins turn it off, and no "central orifice" issues
value control messages.

If you want Windows 7 on *your* server, you send an
email to the administrator, explaining what other servers
run the group, and how its existence would be "ever
so helpful". That's how Windows 7 got added to my server.

At one time, control messages for alt.* were forged, and
the result was the appearance of around 100,000 vanity
newsgroups. This is a result of that era. Google still
carries this, and it gets around two (filtered) messages
per year. Private news servers have removed this, along
with many other vanity groups. And the removal was likely
based on traffic level, followed by a quick sniff for spam.

http://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/grou...bork.bork.html

That group used to be really funny at one time... while
this guy was still on TV. So you can blame the missing
Windows 7 news group, on this guy. It's all his fault.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...edish_Chef.jpg

Paul