Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:36:04 on Mon, 12 Oct
2020, MikeS remarked:

I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of
access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet
clients to use on a phone.

It's the archive search which is most important.

Yes. I'd be happy if GG still actively hosted the group on a read-only,
searchable basis. We don't need posts from GG, but it would be nice if GG
users could read posts from elsewhere.