Re: Groups Archives disapppear
On Sep 15, 8:44 am, diane di...@mathermotorsports.com wrote: At 11:52 PM -0500 9/14/09, Charles Lenington wrote: Kris Tilford wrote: Google started their Groups by purchasing the USENET newsgroups archives from Deja News in 2001. At that time, if I searched for posting in All Groups using my brother's name, I'd find search results going clear back into the early mid-1980's. Now, results barely reach back a couple years, and there seems to be no access to an advanced search that would give access to all the old archives, assuming they still exist? I just discovered that last week. I had the same experience, my old dejanews postings from the early 1990's where out there. Had I any idea they'd go away, I would have archived them myself. We cannot assume that remote services are forever. Anything that I may possibly want access to in the future, I archive locally. I back up with both CCC and Time Machine. This includes all lowendmac lists one other forum to which I subscribe. It includes selected content from genealogy forums. It includes most email messages with previous ISPs and currently with Gmail. Anybody who depends on an ISP's archives while using IMAP may one day lose access. Al Poulin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Groups Archives disapppear
At 11:52 PM -0500 9/14/09, Charles Lenington wrote: Kris Tilford wrote: Google started their Groups by purchasing the USENET newsgroups archives from Deja News in 2001. At that time, if I searched for posting in All Groups using my brother's name, I'd find search results going clear back into the early mid-1980's. Now, results barely reach back a couple years, and there seems to be no access to an advanced search that would give access to all the old archives, assuming they still exist? I just discovered that last week. I had the same experience, my old dejanews postings from the early 1990's where out there. Had I any idea they'd go away, I would have archived them myself. I was able to find some from 2000, but it was only searching the group itself, not googling my email like I used to be able to. Diane --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Groups Archives disapppear
I've been trying to help someone with a problem, and needed to access the archives of the group, and it appears Google has dumped most of the archives for ALL groups except for recent postings within the past few years? This seems crazy. There is detailed information in the archives that is nearly impossible to recreate. Google started their Groups by purchasing the USENET newsgroups archives from Deja News in 2001. At that time, if I searched for posting in All Groups using my brother's name, I'd find search results going clear back into the early mid-1980's. Now, results barely reach back a couple years, and there seems to be no access to an advanced search that would give access to all the old archives, assuming they still exist? It appears to me that this move to Google Groups isn't the wisest choice. Our archives have be split into disjoint sets and now are completely gone forever for older postings. I don't know how much space these old text postings take, but it must be miniscule compared to modern sites like Flicker. Google has really let us down. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
