On 19 Apr 2006 11:09:39 -0700, Banty wrote:

In article om, jebber007
says...

Google Groups seems to earn millions of money off people's posts, but
nobody seems to care about that. Is there a difference here?

The administration of Google-Groups isn't currently spamming the
newsgroup trying to drum up content, while masquerading as
real people. At least if they are, they're doing a better
masquerade.