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A reply to one of last months letters.
by Margaret OlsonJeanne is wrong. USENET is the Big-8, only. I know about the impending mod. category - it won't be Usenet, either ... it's an alternative to alt. I think perhaps Jeanne should have written to me privately to get our stories straight, because I am not very happy with her public reply. She is wrong about Usenet - and compounds it by ignoring the international genealogy groups (which was the point of my message).
There are newsgroups internationally - not just the US-dominated alt.genealogy. There are 25 soc.genealogy newsgroups, some of which carry on conversations in languages other than English (the nordic, german, benelux, hispanic, italian groups all get assorted languages) and there are Swedish, Danish, Austrian, German and probably other hierarchies with newsgroups ..... no.slekt comes to mind first, along with fr.rec.genealogie.
I was trying to make a point that this is an INTERNATIONAL audience and that mentioning only alt.genealogy (a US-dominated group) is not very perceptive for an article in this international newsletter. Alt.genealogy is not the only genealogy newsgroup.
Soc.genealogy has INTERNATIONAL sub-groups. Alt.genealogy carries less traffic than the soc.genealogy.british group - and about 1/8 to 1/10 of the traffic of the whole soc.genealogy hierarchy. It is interesting and useful, but is not the view I'd like to see shown in an article in an international newsletter.
What I was asking is for acknowledgement that there are newsgroups for us all - American and non-American alike.
Margaret Olson