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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:03:45 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:


> >Are you looking at your saved local posts?! Or are those online? I miss DejaNews! :(

> It's all local. (I have a spreadsheet!* ;-)

Wow. You keep track of everything locally, don't you? ;-)


> I mean, you can probably find them on narkive.com too if you dig
> deeply enough. AFAIK it doesn't have a search feature though, so
> you'll just have to keep adding older posts until you get to 2005. It
> may take a few hours (days) but for something so important, I'm sure
> you have the time ;-)

> More realistically, you can still search Google's Usenet archives too,
> on Google Groups. They aren't /updated/ past Feb 22 2024, but all the
> older content is still there. It's useless for browsing though, since
> Google didn't filter out any of the spam. But if you have an idea of
> what you're looking for, it's probably findable.

Ugh. See, this is why I miss DejaNews. Heck, Google Groups could in its 
early days before it got worse. And why does https://groups.google.com 
require me to log in? Frak that.


> * not actually a spreadsheet

Oh, you pecker. :P
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