help: archives?

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G. Sahakian

hello,
this is probably not the right place but I cannot see where to ask; would
anyone be so kind as to tell me if and where there are archives for
microsoft.public.* NGs, since they are not in Googles; thanks a lot.
regards,
 
SA said:
G:

Google does maintain archives of the microsoft.public ngs. Go here:

http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
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Sorry to disappoint everyone. If you go to:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...8&newwindow=1&safe=off&group=microsoft.public
you will find the following line:
Group: microsoft . public(This group is no longer archived)

Further checking reveals that the _archive_ of microsoft.public.access only
goes back to May 11, 2004

Harvey Thompson
Bloomfield, Connecticut USA
 
Harvey Thompson said:
Sorry to disappoint everyone. If you go to:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...8&newwindow=1&safe=off&group=microsoft.public
you will find the following line:
Group: microsoft . public(This group is no longer archived)

Further checking reveals that the _archive_ of
microsoft.public.access only
goes back to May 11, 2004

Harvey Thompson
Bloomfield, Connecticut USA
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I'm afraid you are mistaken or misled. Possibly the specific group
"microsoft.public" is no longer archived, but Google Groups archives 296
groups in the microsoft.public.* hierarchy, of which it lists 35 groups
in the microsoft.public.access.* hierarchy. In the
"microsoft.public.access" group itself, Google Groups reports "about
66,500" threads. And there are many other groups in this hierarchy.
 
Hmm.. well try this:

Enter this exact search term in a google groups search:

Re: Import mailed external data into database

When I enter that, the first post listed is from October 10, 1999, by John
Hawkins...

Seems to work for me...

Fred Boer
 
Dirk Goldgar said:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...8&newwindow=1&safe=off&group=microsoft.public

I'm afraid you are mistaken or misled. Possibly the specific group
"microsoft.public" is no longer archived, but Google Groups archives 296
groups in the microsoft.public.* hierarchy, of which it lists 35 groups
in the microsoft.public.access.* hierarchy. In the
"microsoft.public.access" group itself, Google Groups reports "about
66,500" threads. And there are many other groups in this hierarchy.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com

(please reply to the newsgroup)
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Dirk & Fred,
My mistakes!

1. Threads are displayed backwards, most recent post first. I only
checked one message per thread.

2. If you scan through threads rather than searching , i.e. previous 100
<<, next 100>>, you can only reach the 1000 most recently changed threads.

3. Taking into account the above, it is obvious (now) that the message
(This group is no longer archived) was automatically applied to all
non-existent groups in the hierarchy.

We should all do what we do best. I jump to incorrect conclusions <sigh>

Harvey Thompson
Bloomfield, Connecticut USA
 
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