@Methylcobalamin People are still on comp.os.linux.misc, it is active. Spam was being injected via Google's servers, and some news servers either had more elaborate filtering in place, or just rejected anything from Google, making this and other affected groups usable.
Currently, #GoogleGroups is not getting any new content because when an internal ticket about the spam was escalated enough, the decision was apparently to cut the feed instead of fixing the spam problem.
@Methylcobalamin #GoogleGroups should still(*) have the messages up to the cut-off date, but it might be hard to browse the archive of affected groups because of all the spam.
(*) At least until it gets flagged for having spam and Google blocks it because it has spam — yes, Google blocks groups for having spam that was injected via Google, it has happened before, there are still groups affected by it, and probably will happen again until somebody finally fixes some internal process...
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