Google Usenet Archives extends back to May 12, 1981, no longer Beta

[David McRitchie]

Google Usenet Advanced Search coverage now extends back to
May 12, 1981. (be sure to read the following article)
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

When Google took over Deja it took a while to get back to Mar 29, 1995 and
had almost given up hope that Google would make good on a Deja promise
to restore back many more years. We've got it now.

Most of my complaints with Deja at the end where they messed
themselves up before their database and engines were taken over by
Google have now been resolved.
- You can use the old Deja links or the MessageID
- Logical lookups is better than Google first provided, not quite as
good as Deja had but I think it is there just not announced (based
on some of Jeremy Nixon's stuff).
- You can once again obtain the original posting with all headers,
so you can find the MessageID.
- Google Advanced Groups Search is no longer marked Beta
- The Advanced Groups Search now has it's own HELP pages,
rather than just pointing the to Web Search HELP pages.

Would still like to see,
- a days range for articles fill in the number i.e. _5_ days
in addition to the scroll bar or entry of a specific date range.
- Search arguments like AltaVista.

Pages on my site of interest
Search Page for "My Excel Pages"
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Excel Newsgroups & Searching Newsgroups
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlnews.htm

HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Macros: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Surprisingly (?) though, there's no postings under my name prior to
1999 or so - I know I posted on occasion to some major groups from 1984
to 1986, when I started using alii (about 12,000 of those messages are
there). So I suspect there are still a few holes - I'll have to
investigate. And no, I'm not the person who posted to alt.s**.zoophile.

Thanks for the heads-up, David!

In article <OGW6WwpgBHA.2392@tkmsftngp07>, David McRitchie
<dmcri...@msn.com> wrote:

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