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 === Google Groups Syncing ===
-Discussion Forums are synchronized from email to a nntp (Usenet) newsgroup. Google Groups can sync with external newsgroups like ours, and in turn provide a web interface to post responses that seemlessly show up correctly as messages on the email list. For various reasons, Google Groups has had trouble [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716007 reliably syncing posts] from our family of newsgroups, and particularly in learn of new Forums that get created from time to time. This inconsistency causes confusion and fragmentation of the conversation, and ultimately frustration.
+Discussion Forums are synchronized from email to nntp newsgroups (the Usenet), hosted at [nntp://news.mozilla.org/ nntp://news.mozilla.org/]. These newsgroup messages are synced by Google Groups and in turn provide a web interface to post responses that then show up correctly as expected on the email list. For various reasons, Google Groups has had trouble [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716007 reliably syncing posts] from our newsgroups, in particularly new Forums that get created from time to time. This inconsistency causes confusion and fragmentation of the conversation, and ultimately frustration.
 === Newsgroup gateways break threading ===