Rich Grise wrote :

> I wanted to post to, and I wasn't sure if google would post to an
> alt group.

Did you ever read the "Newsreader stats" posted to this group once a
week? If you did you would have noticed that groups.google.com is there
every week:
Message-ID: <2004-06-12T18-36-21@heaney.example.org>
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Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.