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I've read about it here but I do not understand.

What is the difference - UseNet group vs Normal group?

James Mertz
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Lazer
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Once upon a time, there was service called Deja News that used to archive all content of Usenet newsgroups. Deja News was eventually purchased by Google and became Google groups.

Uwe Honekamp
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Usenet is a set of distributed discussion groups started in 1980 and available through a variety of methods and servers.

Google Groups is a web based service, provided by the company Google, which includes the Usenet groups as well as groups created for its own service.

Richard Hoskins
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Google groups are hosted by Google themselves. Usenet groups on the other hand are hosted by a multitude of news servers. They can be accessed using the NNTP protocol. Usually, your service provider also hosts a mirror of some newsgroups. But independent news servers exist also.

In that sense, Usenet is decentralised, wheras google groups is centralised.

It may also be the case that groups created directly on google groups are not synchronised with the other NNTP servers out there (somebody correct me if I'm wrong). I stand corrected.

exhuma
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