Path: ...!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.eu1.usenetexpress.com!news.uzoreto.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: MikeS Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: List of my posts Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:57:44 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <39633c57-f5d5-4763-8a6b-2045425d25e5@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:57:46 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="49addf994977147dbb1e73f8d566da0f"; logging-data="4502"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+KlL46Lh40L8cv0c1Z06Td" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1RS76uovY81ZVVpbknAHaOJzmnU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3729 On 22/04/2020 10:11, Patok wrote: > Paul wrote: >> Andy wrote: >>> Is there a way that I can find a list of my posts here? >>> >>> (Sometimes I forget where I posted a particular post I have made. >>> Thanks, >>>         Andy >> >> There used to be, but it no longer exists. >> >> groups.google.com used to keep "profiles". >> >> If you made 20000 posts, they were sorted by the month you >> made them. You could navigate to a month folder, and click >> on individual items. >> >> They got rid of profiles. >> >> Now, you can't do that any more. >> >> It also destroys the only reason to keep a >> consistent identifier in the header of your posts. >> With no profile keeping, your posts aren't sitting >> in Google Groups all organized for you. >> >> ******* >> >> You are a Google Grouper, using a web interface to USENET. >> Whatever features google provided, that's what you get. >> If there's no column to "sort by user", then you can't >> sort by user. (I checked, and there's no column for that.) >> >> If you use a standalone client program for Windows ("Thunderbird"), >> and connect to one of the smaller privately owned "free" servers, >> the client can have a column with the username listed. If >> you click the column-sort triangle at the top, the posts >> are sorted by username instead of being sorted by thread-date >> or similar. >> >> This allows you, by scrolling down a bit, to find all the >> posts that say "Andy". These are posts, where the headers >> have been noted by the Windows client program, but the body >> of the posts isn't necessarily stored on your hard drive. >> But by seeing the header info, you can see all the posts you made. >> >> Once you're finished searching by username that way, >> you can click the button to sort by thread-date again, >> and after a few seconds the display returns to "normal". > > Another reason to NOT use gg but a standalone client is that you can > configure the client to store all sent messages locally on your > computer. That's what I have done and now I have access to all messages > I ever posted in any newsgroup. This is similar to using the external > news server, but has the advantage that it keeps all messages from years > ago where they might have expired on the server. > Thanks for that. I have been using Thunderbird for years but had no idea it was already set up to do exactly what you suggested. Local Folders/Sent has all my posts since 2015!