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 <[email protected]> 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 >
