[Numpy-discussion] Google Groups archive?

[Pierre GM]

On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:14 AM, David Warde-Farley wrote:

> Does anyone know what happened to the Google Groups archive of this
> list? when I try to access it, I see:
>
> Cannot find numpy-discussion
> The group named numpy-discussion has been removed because it violated
> Google's Terms Of Service.
>
> This seems exceedingly odd. Does anyone know _how_ we violated the  
> ToS?

Hit by spam-bots, most likely. Was it actively used, actually ?