On May 17, 7:58 pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> The Steeping Pot > wrote:
>
> >The only reason I hadn't participated before is b/c I didn't know this
> >group existed. As a consumer, I'm new to groups in general. I'm a
> >member now, and fully plan on being involved without the intention of
> >pushing my products. I figured the posting was harmless b/c I didn't
> >try to trick anyone into reading it with a fake subject line - it was
> >simply an announcement.
>
> It's more google's fault than yours. Google dumps users onto Usenet
> without explaining to them what it is, in fact they seem to go out of
> their way to make it look like it's some kind of proprietary web board
> thing that they run, when in fact it predates Google's existence by
> nearly two decades and runs on 70,000 cooperative servers around the world.
>
> If you had started reading news with a conventional newsreader, it would
> have first dropped you into the news.announce.newusers group and forced
> you to read the introductory material there before allowing you to do
> anything else. Google does not do this, but that doesn't mean you can't
> do it yourself on your own initiative.
>
> Because Usenet is run by so many different folks on their own servers all
> over the world, commercial use is strongly discouraged because all of the
> various folks running servers would be subsidizing your advertising. Google
> sadly not only does not explain this but doesn't explain the background
> behind it.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

I had no idea about any of this. I simply thought it was part of
Google Groups. I'll definitely read more into this. Thank you!

Desirea