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From: Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>
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Subject: Re: Past TO post links
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On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:56:46 -0700, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com>:

>On 9/18/24 6:26 AM, RonO wrote:
>> Now that google isn't archiving Newsgroups how do we link back to past 
>> posts? I used to always use the google address for a post because it was 
>> easy to get it, but that hasn't been possible after Google stopped 
>> supporting newsgroups.
>> 
>> I've tried to find how eternal september could do it, but they do not 
>> seem to have a feature to provide the post address like google had.
>> 
>> Ron Okimoto
>> 
>Using Thunderbolt as the mail interface makes it pretty easy.  You can 
>specify how many posts to read.  If 100000 doesn't get the ones you 
>want, try 150000.  It can take a while to load all that.  Is there 
>anything back there that's really work reading again?
>
Worth reading again? Not usually, but beloved by those like
Peter Nyikos who delighted in dragging up multiple, usually
out-of-context and/or frequently irrelevant, snippets and
combining them into a single "wall o' text".
>
-- 

Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
 the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

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