mark...@gmail.com writes: > On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 6:01:58 PM UTC+1, superchromix wrote: >> Our own programming discussion newsgroup, located at >> comp.lang.idl-pvwave, started receiving spam messages several months >> ago. >> >> Two weeks ago, access to comp.lang.idl-pvwave was blocked by Google >> Groups. >> >> When trying to access comp.lang.idl-pvwave, a message is now >> displayed, stating that the group owner needs to remove the spam, >> and can then apply to Google in order to have access reinstated. >> >> However, old public Usenet groups like this have no owner. The >> comp.lang.idl-pvwave group is more than 20 years old. Hence, there >> is no way to unblock the group. >> >> This is a serious problem, since the entire collection of postings >> going back many years has been blocked, no just the spam. This >> resource is frequently used by IDL programmers. >> >> Seeing the spam postings in this newsgroup, I expect something >> similar may happen to comp.lang.python, soon. > > The problem I have now is that there is no public, searchable archive > of comp.lang.idl-pvwave available. This was the real benefit of Google > groups, from my point of view. > > There is something called "narkive", but its search function seems to > be broken, and it doesn't archive very far back in time.
A couple of other mail archivers are: https://www.mail-archive.com https://marc.info -- Pete Forman -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
