As grammatim says, posts had been archived "forever" at DejaNews, which
Google acquired (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_News). At the time,
there were considerable misgivings on the part of Usenet users, but in fact
Google has proved to be a worthy successor, although, as I indicated, many
Google users wish that Usenet posts were not returned along with other
results of an ordinary "Web" search. The problem, of course, is that there
are so many Web services "slurping" the NGs, that any spider crawling the
Web is going to find NG posts reproduced on these sites.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
How did Google, which hasn't itself been around since 1993, get hold of
posts from then? The implication is that there must be another archive
somewhere.
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Enjoy,
Tony
"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Go to http://groups.google.com/advanced_search and enter any combination
of
keywords, newsgroup, author's name, and date that applies to the message
you're
looking for.
I'm guessing that Suzanne put quotes around "permanently" because Google
makes
no promises about how long they'll continue to keep everything. However,
I can
still find a couple of my posts from October 1993.
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Jay Freedman
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On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:47:02 -0700, sheana
wrote:
Thanks for answering my question. If Google archives them permanently,
then
how do I find them...can you give me an example? Thanks in advance.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
The msnews server keeps messages at least 60-90 days, I think, but they
are
archived "permanently" by Google.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"sheana" wrote in message
...
Can you tell me how long mine or anyone's questions remain in the
database?
Thanks in advance.