Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Casanova Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Past TO post links Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:26:39 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <6d8298f8-48a8-407d-9ade-2f6fd2f29e72@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="82977"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:veP73f2L9LJgWpx7+NiZntEgWrI= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id F081422986F; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:26:29 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C777622978C for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:26:27 -0400 (EDT) id 5DFA35DC78; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:26:44 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay-1.kamens.us (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BC195DC29 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:26:44 +0000 (UTC) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-256)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eternal-september.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5ED8E5F83B for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: name/5ED8E5F83B; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=buzz.off id EBA8EDC01A9; Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:26:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:26:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/q+ze13E3dwMPZGqxpzgXVLp3EFP4stsfPQlZXhV06KX5gQMPxnsWU HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 smtp.eternal-september.org Bytes: 3584 On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:56:46 -0700, the following appeared in talk.origins, posted by erik simpson : >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...'" - Isaac Asimov