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Raps1 ago

Usenet is basically dead. What was once a very active and heavily utilized network is now long forgotten by most. There is censorship, it's called a cancel message.

You did not create a usenet group. You created a Google Groups "Forum". It won't propagate and isn't accessible via NNTP.

Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests. The Groups service also provides a gateway to Usenet newsgroups via a shared user interface. ... The first kind are forums specific to Google Groups which are inaccessible by NNTP and act more like mailing lists.>

The fact the name doesn't conform to the usenet hierarchical naming convention should have tipped you off.

People often ask me what I used to do for a living. When I tell them I ran a lucrative NNTP service back in the day, all I get is a blank stare.

You could create a usenet group, but getting other servers to pick it up would be most unlikely. The signal to noise ratio is too high and all anyone uses usenet for now are warez and CP. The heavily utilized discussion groups are now almost all completely dead. Combine that with the fact that most people don't know what usenet is and have no access to it means you're unlikely to have any success using that route. It'd be better to find an offshore hosting company and install myBB, or other forum software.