On Jan 7, 1:33*am, BCBlazysusan wrote:
On Jan 7, 1:22*am, SC Dxing wrote:

On Jan 7, 12:41*am, elaich wrote:

No, you are not. There are a number of free alternatives, if you would just
educate yourself about them.

Could you perhaps educate me also. I would love to ditch google if I
could.

- I agree SC, my ISP doesn't have them either.
- Actually googlegroups IMO was more confusing
- than what I had. But it's not that bad now....I
- know my way around and all, better than nothing.
- If I didn't have usenet I think I would have withdrawls. ;-)

For this Next Generation of Personal Computer [PC]
Internet Users* who know nothing of the UseNet; and
only know Google Groups, YouTube, FaceBook etc.
* Google Groups -is- "Google Groups" it's what you do.

An ISP can not make any Money of of UseNet
by simply providing it as a 'service'.

Eliminating UseNet and allowing Newsgroup Access
via Google-Groups with Paid Advertising may provide
some Income {Money} to the ISP directly or indirectly.

Plus all the former UseNet web-traffic is now funneled
via Google Groups Servers and this may un-burden the
ISP of some utility functions.

the modern day 'internet' is about business and profits
while the 'www-usenet' was a service ~ RHF