"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:04:53 -0500, "Janet" >
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "idugall" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Hey! I just joined this group and wanted to let everyone know -
>> > looking forward to hearing interesting things about cooking!
>>
>> It's really unfortunate that google groups encourages people to believe
>> that
>> they are "joining" something when they post to a usenet group.
>>
>> But hi, anyway....and good luck.
>>
>>
> What does the google usenet interface have to do with private google
> groups? Absolutely nothing.
>
>
Because these people have no idea what usenet is. You don't have to "join"
anything to post here. You do have to "join" something on Google to do
anything other than look stuff up using the search engine.

Jill