RHF writes:
[...]
OK so can we all get back to Counting the Number
of Angels on the Head of a Pin . . . . . . . . . ~ RHF

It's a little more relevent than that.

Some of us use real usenet newsreader clients (instead of the Google
web interface), so the Google and Yahoo groups aren't accessible using
these applications. There are lots of other political and practical
reasons why Yahoo/Google "groups" are significantly different than
usenet newsgroups.
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