Google Groups

does anyone know how to access the entire google groups to find out
how may groups there actually are?







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David Scott
http://www.autographsamerica.com

My guess is there are thousands of groups... what are you after just
autograph groups? If so, you can do a search for a group of a
particular interest I believe.

Here's the link to the areas of groups they have...

http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?hl=en



On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:11:10 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

does anyone know how to access the entire google groups to find out
how may groups there actually are?







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David Scott
http://www.autographsamerica.com

after a search (does not include Yahoo groups or
organizations/individual websites who host their own boards/groups);
the Google/Newsgroup area has only three groups worthy of visiting...

That is this group (the most members at 257)
One other group with 60 plus members (which is all spam and mostly
poor postings which are not related to collecting)
and the third group is ours TTM-collecting.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:55:14 -0400, Sue H wrote:

My guess is there are thousands of groups... what are you after just
autograph groups? If so, you can do a search for a group of a
particular interest I believe.

Here's the link to the areas of groups they have...

http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?hl=en



On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:11:10 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

does anyone know how to access the entire google groups to find out
how may groups there actually are?







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David Scott
http://www.autographsamerica.com

Here it says 10,003 groups out there.

http://groups.google.com/groups/dir

Chip

On Mar 19, 1:11 pm, wrote:
does anyone know how to access the entire google groups to find out
how may groups there actually are?

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David Scotthttp://www.autographsamerica.com

Proably 2/3 of those groups are defunct or have fewer than 10 members
though.

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:03:38 -0700 (PDT), chip1057
wrote:

Here it says 10,003 groups out there.

http://groups.google.com/groups/dir

Chip

On Mar 19, 1:11 pm, wrote:
does anyone know how to access the entire google groups to find out
how may groups there actually are?

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David Scotthttp://www.autographsamerica.com

I looked up all the "autograph" "autographs" groups and there weren't
that many and only three or four had more than 15-20 members. They do
tell you how many members at the bottom ... take another look

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:33:09 -0700, Evan Platt
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:24:32 -0400, Sue H wrote:

Proably 2/3 of those groups are defunct or have fewer than 10 members
though.

Google Groups is nothing more than a Web interface to Usenet.

As such, there's no way to know how many 'members' there are, since
there's no way to tell how many members are in a Usenet group.

that's true; they may be behind; Ours was listed as less than what we
actually have (not by much but a couple)

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:38:07 -0700, Evan Platt
wrote:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:24:58 -0400, Sue H wrote:

I looked up all the "autograph" "autographs" groups and there weren't
that many and only three or four had more than 15-20 members. They do
tell you how many members at the bottom ... take another look

Yeah, but as I said, there is no way to tell in a Usenet group how
many 'members' there are, as this data isn't stored anywhere. I don't
know how Google Groups is counting 'members', but it's not going to be
accurate.