In message , Joseph
Blewewtt wrote

Google Groups is useless if that's the way you are accessing Usenet. If
only because a lot of saddos use it to post abuse, with the result that
a lot of clued up Usenet users will automatically filter out postings
from Google groups.

Yep, I set up my newsreader to filter posts from Google Groups and 90
percent of the junk disappeared.
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Alan
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