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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Past TO post links
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:54:16 -0500
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On 9/20/2024 6:31 AM, jillery wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:32:00 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/18/2024 11:26 AM, Bob Casanova wrote:
>>> 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".
>>>>
>>
>> Nyikos would do that because he could quote mine and only take the part
>> of the post that he wanted to lie about.  He had this notion of a self
>> contained lie, that he was supposed to have never told.  Nyikos would
>> make sure that the material he was lying about was not in the post where
>> he was lying.  It is why he would snip out the relevant material before
>> replying to a post.
>>
>> What I need is a way to link back to the whole post, so that you can see
>> the context if you want to check it out.
>>
>> Ron Okimoto
> 
> 
> Most of the bigger Usenet servers like Giganews claim to archive posts
> for text froups like T.O. going back at least 10 years.
> 
> Agent has the ability to locally archive and search past posts.  It's
> ability to search using keywords is reasonably extensive.  I have
> archived T.O. since 1/1/2010.  If anybody has a need, I can provide
> complete copies of past posts going back to then.

I am going to stick with eternal september and try the other options 
that have been suggested.  They seem to work.

Ron Okimoto
> 
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