>But if Google Groups doesn't send out to USENET, is it just its own closed system like Yahoo Groups used to be or something? I do not know as I never used it

>But if Google Groups doesn't send out to USENET, is it just its own closed system like Yahoo Groups used to be or something? I do not know as I never used it after they killed the old dejanews interface. But Google did cut it off from USENET sometime last year.