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From: MikeS <MikeS@fred.com>
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Subject: Re: List of my posts
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:57:44 +0100
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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!