[ih] google groups going away feb 22

[John Levine]

It appears that Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via Internet-history <ocl at gih.com> said:
>What matters is that the USENET archive held at Google remains.
>How much of this has already disappeared?

As far as I know, they're not planning to delete what's already there.

>I know there was some discussion a few years ago about this. With 
>decreasing storage costs, is there a chance that we're not going to see 
>bit rot affect Usenet archives? Amongst the chaff there was some real 
>gold in them thar networks...

It is my impression that large usenet providers like Giganews in fact
keep everything except messages for which they get DMCA notices.  So you
may have to search two places but the archive is still pretty complete.

R's,
John