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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: USEnet Archives
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:51:14 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=  <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>   https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/forums.html
>
>Google was both the most complete and the best searchable.

Sadly, though, Google had not been searchable for the last decade of it's
life.  All of the indices were screwed up and older messages were simply
not possible to find except by message-id.  It was shameful and nobody at
Google cared.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."