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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by sitkack on Saturday February 13, 2021 @04:51PM (#26127313)
This is hilarious because Google is probably the largest user of C++ and has the most people on the C++ standards committees .
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by dialamac on Saturday February 13, 2021 @05:30PM (#26127606)
This is about C, not C++. Though I haven’t been there in years, I chuckle to think what would have happened if you made this mistake on that news group.
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Re:Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned by storedbox on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:26PM (#26128041)
Pretty sure OP is referring to this part of the comment they were replying to:

> Users posting to comp.lang.c through Google Groups were a problem -- especially with the recent bug that caused GG posts to comp.lang.c++ to have the "++" quietly dropped.

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