On Friday, 23 August 2019 02:32:33 UTC+10, John W.  wrote:

> I am always a bit surprised when Google emails me that an update has been made to this group.

Is there a Google Group setting for that? 

I get postings from fjlij, slj, etc. emailed to me by running
a script called "newsdeliver" every few minutes. It points at
an NNTP server.

Jim