George said:
Depends how you look at it - the OP did not post to this Usenet NG but to
some "GoogleGROUP" which did an auto-forward to here. This is happening
more & more, with other Web Forums too. The OPs have never read this NG,
nor its charter or intent, which is obvious by the info they (don't) supply
in their pleas for help.
Seems like a direct post to Usenet through Google Groups rather than an
indirect auto-forward. If you consider Google Groups to be an
auto-forwarder, then you'd have to count every news server in the world
to be an indirect auto-forwarder into Usenet too.
This is likely the former Dejanews service that Google took over eons ago.
If you also consider that Google would rather that Usenet did not exist and
would rather it fade away into oblivion to be replaced by their own
ad-sponsored private groups, it can certainly be seen as an uninvited
pollution of Usenet. Maybe you hadn't noticed that everything you post
here is reproduced all over the WWW by sites which pretend to offer
"advice" for a "price", perceived or not.
Though Google has its own private Google Groups too, it's maintaining
its public connection to the Usenet just as much as before. And it
doesn't need to create a separate network to attach ads to those
messages, afterall it's controlling the interface to those groups while
you're accessing through Google Groups, so it can give you ads whether
you're using the private Google Groups, or the public Google Groups
interface to Usenet.
I can't blame Google for wanting to create its own private forums
database. Having recently created a newsgroup, I've found out that the
main Usenet hierarchies are locked down -- i.e. you can't create new
newsgroup at all, except in the alt.* hierarchy, or the new,
even-more-ungoverned free.* hierarchy. All of the main comp.*, rec.*,
misc.*, etc. are now locked down due to infighting.
For the most part, I find answers are much more easy to find in Google
Groups search than it is in Google's websearch.
Yousuf Khan