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.

I've tried to tracjk down the source of these posts, but they come
from all over the world and can be found in all groups.

Almost all of them contain the phrase "looking forward to hearing
about...". (which isn't proper English, not that I'm an expert...)

-sw