How do members access the group?

I access the group through Google. The following link shows what I see
when I log on:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sup****t.hearing-loss/topics?lnk=srg
Not only are recent posts shown but there is a search facility and you
can make new posts, like this one.

But is it obvious that some members access the usenet by other means.
Someone recently mentioned that he could not readily search the group
and I notice that Iklein uses a different host.

I found the group what seems like decades ago through Deja. Later
Google absorbed Deja and took over its archives, including all posts
to this group since it was formed (by one Steve).

But I hold no particular brief for Google (though I don't know what I
would do without it!). I, and no doubt others, would be interested in
learning of different ways of accessing the usenet and their
advantages and disadvantages.