By "newsgroup view" I'm referring to the list of messages which appears in
the middle of the screen, which has columns for Subject, From, Sent, Size,
etc. and which can be "sorted" in various orders.
Is it possible to save this list to a text file which can be examined later?
In that way one could research topics that were discussed in the past, in
ways that might be superior to what the Find action can do.
In other words, I would like to "redirect" the view to a file, similar to
saying (in the MSDOS box) dir dir.txt .
I know this is a broad question that would apply to all newsgroups. If there
is a more appropriate newsgroup for this question, please redirect me!

Depends what newsreader you're using.

Have you considered simply using Google Groups' advanced search
facilities to research your topics?

http://groups.google.com/

Steve


By "newsgroup view" I'm referring to the list of messages which appears in
the middle of the screen, which has columns for Subject, From, Sent, Size,
etc. and which can be "sorted" in various orders.
Is it possible to save this list to a text file which can be examined later?
In that way one could research topics that were discussed in the past, in
ways that might be superior to what the Find action can do.
In other words, I would like to "redirect" the view to a file, similar to
saying (in the MSDOS box) dir dir.txt .
I know this is a broad question that would apply to all newsgroups. If there
is a more appropriate newsgroup for this question, please redirect me!

I'm using Outlook Express provided by Earthlink. I actually want to search
for topics using my own software, which is why I would like to get the list
of Subjects-From-Sent as an offline text file.

"Stephen Glynn" wrote in message
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Depends what newsreader you're using.

Have you considered simply using Google Groups' advanced search facilities
to research your topics?

Why not just search within OE? It has a perfectly good search feature. You
can also search visually for specific subject lines if you sort by subject.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Peter Rooney" wrote in message
nk.net...
I'm using Outlook Express provided by Earthlink. I actually want to search
for topics using my own software, which is why I would like to get the
list
of Subjects-From-Sent as an offline text file.

"Stephen Glynn" wrote in message
...
Depends what newsreader you're using.

Have you considered simply using Google Groups' advanced search
facilities
to research your topics?

No, because I want to develop a product. There's no particular subject I am
searching for right now. Besides, I don't consider the Find tool in OE to be
very good. For example, you can search for "page numbering" but "numbering
page" will come up empty. Also, I want to search not just the past few
months, but the past several years. Are there archives?


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Why not just search within OE? It has a perfectly good search feature. You
can also search visually for specific subject lines if you sort by
subject.

The archives, to which I believe you have already been pointed, are at
Google Groups; you can use all the power of Google to search there.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Peter Rooney" wrote in message
ink.net...
No, because I want to develop a product. There's no particular subject I
am
searching for right now. Besides, I don't consider the Find tool in OE to
be
very good. For example, you can search for "page numbering" but "numbering
page" will come up empty. Also, I want to search not just the past few
months, but the past several years. Are there archives?


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Why not just search within OE? It has a perfectly good search feature.
You
can also search visually for specific subject lines if you sort by
subject.

Out of interest, I've just done a search of Google Groups for "page"
AND "numbering" in microsoft.public.word.newusers. It took 0.20 seconds
to find 260 threads, going back to 1999.

Steve

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
The archives, to which I believe you have already been pointed, are at
Google Groups; you can use all the power of Google to search there.