Wayback machine for Google Groups?

Now, first and foremost, I really have no idea on where should I turn
to for stuff regarding Google Groups. Google has no mechanism for you,
J. Random Hacker, to contact a human and talk to that human about
anything related to any Google products. Such as Google Groups. I found
two groups on Usenet that could be usefull, but God only knows who
frequents those.

So I chose to also ask my question here.

Is there a way to, perhaps, dig a GG out from the grave?

When executing my regular get-the-mail ritual this afternoon, the
gmail server had problems getting one of the emails. Later on, it
corrected itself and I got all the mail I was supposed to get. This is
ultimately normal. Nevertheless, curious, I logged in to Gmail (I don't
normally do that - instead I use Claws-mail) and was suprised to find a
bunch of unknown mails in the Spam folder. This was unusual because I
set up filters specifically designed to prevent Gmail
sending /anything/ into the Spam folder. (It later turned out the
filters had a hole in them.)

Well, anyway, I de-spammed the mails, used my mail client to download
them and when I took a look at them, I was even more suprised, because
they appear to be coming from a Google Group that I have no memory of
ever joining. In fact, I was never involved with Google Groups in the
time that I have had an account at Gmail.

I thought the mails could just be part of a themed spam campaign
(after all, headers can easily be forged), but there are several things
that make that hypothesis much harder to fit than usual.

The signature is set in everyone of them, much like there is one in
every message from the LFS mailing lists, and headers in these GG mails
also look 100% legit. A bunch of List-* headers (such as List-ID), with
the rest of the headers, specifically the chain of headers that
documents the e-mails travel through the system look perfectly normal -
just as they look on any e-mail from any LFS mail list. The only
two interesting things about them is, first, that the stated names of
senders don't match the email address of the sender and, second, that
all the mails were sent from @aol.com addresses.

{
  I just did a deeper analysis of the headers and, if they are to be
  believed, the mails almost certainly did pass through Google
  Groups. The relay chain has AOL's servers at its beggining, then
  passes a Google relay and from then on stays within Google. The IP
  addresses recorded are even all in the 10.0.0.0/8 namespace. So, all
  in all, I believe the mails to be legitimate in that they originated
  from (that is, passed through) Google Groups.
}

So, okay, I decided to find out what this GG is and how the h**l did my
e-mail end up in one of those. And then I was sorely disapointed (and
suprised) because the search engines can't find it and, whats more, the
Google Groups itself comes up blank when queried about the group. This
was tested using a vanilla link to the Internet, and also using Tor.
So, (again assuming the results of my search are legitimate) maybe the
group did exist, but was deleted in the time after the last mail was
sent and before I found out about this. Which means that I should look
for some sort of an archive. But where? And how?

And my question, obviously, is how can one verify the existance of the
Group, as well as my (supposed) involvement with the Group? Does anyone
here have any idea? Maybe a similar experience? Knows of someone who
had something similar happen to him/her?

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