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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by pseut on Thursday February 14, 2013 @11:44AM (#5220271)
Gmane doesn't mirror google groups -- it mirrors public mailing lists and originally was made to reformat them for news readers[1]; some mailing lists use it intentionally as their public archives (emacs org-mode for one) so you might be missing out if you blacklist it. I don't have any affiliation with them, but they don't seem too bad.

[1] http://gmane.org/about.php

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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by rhizome on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:31PM (#5221037)
If their purpose is so focused on newsreader formatting, they should tweak their robots.txt to keep from polluting SERPs.
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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by dsl on Thursday February 14, 2013 @05:58PM (#5223131)
Google groups should modify its robots.txt to avoid showing up in SERPS. Gmane was around first.
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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by rhizome on Thursday February 14, 2013 @08:59PM (#5223990)
Gmane was not around first. Google Groups started almost a year before the gmane.org domain was even registered, and it was built upon the purchase of the DejaNews archives, which itself began in the mid-90s.
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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by pseut on Friday February 15, 2013 @11:34AM (#5226964)
Deja News was a web interface for Usenet, not a newsgroup interface for mailing lists. I don't remember when google groups switched to a web/mailing list setup, but I think it was later than 2002 (when Gmane started).
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