"Jef Gorbach" wrote in message
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odd that the "last day" was 2-weeks ago and the NG is still alive and
kicking, although traffic IS way down and for some reason the spam is
up .... come back people, WE havent left! lol

These groups still exist through news servers other than
msnews.microsoft.com. The traffic is down because most people either
subscribed via msnews.microsoft.com (I did) or used these groups via the
'orrible web interface. I presume that most of those users are now using the
forums. (And a right dozy bunch they are there too - never seen so many
STUPID posts in all my days...)