Looks like Google is going after Yahoo groups now. Check out new Google Groups Beta. This is pretty convinient and better than old Google Groups. Now you can get the new messages in a newsgroup as a digest. You can also mark ("Star" as they call it) some import threads. For someone, like me, who spends a lot of time searching alt.os.development for information, this is a blessing!

While I am on it, let me just put it down in writing that alt.os.development is THE place for OS Devel related information. It, as they say, just rocks.