VinnyB said:
Well, he is still posting to this NG. He just posted
From: (e-mail address removed)
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject: Should I re-install XP Home?
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:41:24 -0600
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and
From: (e-mail address removed)
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject: Does XP Pro and XP Home use the same SP3 Upgrade file?
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:12:06 -0600
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so it looks to me like you are probably wrong.
The "OP" Vanguard is referring to, is from "richard2 @ none.com".
The post was made 24 Mar 2012. It's unlikely richard2 is
sitting at his keyboard, still waiting for an answer. Only
one of the regulars would still be at their keyboard.
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cg...=<[email protected]>
casey.o is not the OP of the thread. richard2 is.
I can see the entire thread (the headers), because Thunderbird
does not remove the old headers. As long as I was pulling
articles the entire time, I can see all the articles for
the group. I can see stuff back to Jan 2009 right now
(just the headers, not the message bodies).
Using the howardknight site, I can look up a post from 2009,
using the MID. You can find the MID value, by looking at
the header of the message sent by "(e-mail address removed)". That's
how I got the pointer to the item stored on howardknight.
My Eternal-September server doesn't go back two years, but
as long as Thunderbird remembers the MID value, I can
find the originating article. As shown in that example.
Google Groups used to support "search by MID", but I think
the search page is not very useful any more. It might have
been this page, with search by MID on it, but the page
is redirected now, to a useless page. So it's howardknight
to the rescue, instead.
http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&
HowardKnight truncates messages to around 2KB or so, as a means
to prevent movie piracy by saving multi-part uploads people
put on binary groups. This means HowardKnight is no longer
a "verbatim" archive, with respect to things we search for
by MID. If the message you look up, happens to be a long one,
the end of the message could go missing. Apparently the
server code is not smart enough to just smack things with
particular encodings. Truncating was a quick fix for them,
to avoid excessive web searches and traffic.
Paul