Yahoo Groups archive of python-list wiped - what happened?

[Just van Rossum]

Hamish Lawson wrote:
> 
> The Yahoo Groups archive of python-list seems to have started over
> with message #1 dated 5 November 2001, losing all messages before
> that. Does anyone know what happened?
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/messages/1

Ouch, it's a disaster for my irregular stats page:

  http://starship.python.net/~just/comp.lang.python/

I haven't updated it in a few months, but it looks like I can't
update it the way I used to, if at all. I hope it's a temporary
glitch, and not that they've simply wiped their archives...

Just