[pjc50]

Groups is the last resting place of the USENET archive. Deleting it would be a tremendous loss!

[jakeogh]

I bet that's what they do. Just like Google Video. Maybe throw a "oops we are just archiving it!" in before they finally drop the axe.

Note how it's JS interface makes it difficult to archive now. Is that because HTML fallback on USENET would be too hard for the googlemachine?

The sooner the better.