Re: USENET archive(s) other than Google?

Peter J Ross wrote:
In news.software.readers on 30 Jul 2007 19:12:30 GMT, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Upon getting that reply today, I checked again (more than once), and the
*only* hits the same two criteria (word and group) produced were the
four in the current discussion about his not being able to find the
earlier one himself.

According to Google, "Blinky the Shark" made no posts between 01 Jan
1981 and 31 Dec 2006.

I just plugged into the Author field

Blinky the Shark

and got 7,000 hits.

See what I mean?

Naturally, even that is WAY WAY WAY low.

<http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=&num=10&scoring=r&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=Blinky+the+Shark&lr=&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=31&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=2006&safe=off>

Well, you're not doing too badly for such a newb!

Try it with the address I fly: no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Whatever else you say about XNA, it certainly seems to be superfluous
at present.

This has been broken for *weeks*, btw.

It's the inconsistency that boggles the mind.


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