P.S. I just downloaded (from the internet archive) and looked at the comp.lang.forth archives and they seem to cover 2003 through 2014.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:42 PM Joseph S. Barrera III <j...@barrera.org> wrote: > Right now it's (temporarily?) hidden, not deleted. Hopefully it will be > restored. (I used to be a member of the Google Groups project.) Banned > groups aren't deleted for some number of weeks in case the ban was a > mistake. > > There are also some backups at > https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp.lang > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:11 PM Dave via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> I was looking for an old post on comp.lang.forth, and was surprised to >> discover that the group doesn't appear to be hosted on google groups any >> more. Searching the group pulls up a "banned group" message, and selecting >> the "continue to the group" button shows 0 messages in the group. This >> appears to be due to spam showing up in the unmoderated group. >> >> Google bought Dejanews years ago, and, as I understand, was the defacto >> main usenet repository. Is is all really gone, or just temporarily >> hidden? How long ago did this happen? Is the full comp.lang.forth archive >> available anywhere? >> >> I wonder if it's time to set up some NNTP mirrors and gather as much >> historical usenet content as possible. Much of the overall content is >> garbage, but there's some priceless stuff in there, and even more that will >> become interesting in light of future developments. >> >> Dave >> >
