> I don't know how accessible what archives there are as they went via Dejanews and then Google Groups. And unfortunately Google has starting blocking some gro

> I don't know how accessible what archives there are as they went via Dejanews and then Google Groups. And unfortunately Google has starting blocking some groups because of too much spam (that to some extent probably was enabled by Google itself in the first place), and unfortunately that means that the archives of those groups (pre-dating the current spam deluge) are inaccessible, too.