In a long post on the PopG weblog, Andy Swarbrick expresses his worries on the suspension "feature" of Groove.

Groove has a "feature" called suspension. This is supposed to be a way of managing space members who are off-line for a long time. Nice idea, but frankly the function simply does not work. It does not deal properly with people who are off-line a long time and definitely can destroy productivity in those who are on-line.

JiRong Zhou announced through his weblog that the script version of Avantmail for Groove is available as freeware. Avantmail is an excellent email client for Groove that is broadly used throughout the Groove community. Zalba is currently working on the .NET version of this tool.