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Subject: 
Re: RTL/ATL Archive?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:39:54 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Eaton wrote:
> So, I'd love to browse RTL/ATL history. Google groups technically has a way to
> do this-- browsing groups with their web interface:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.toys.lego/topics?hl=en&start=60&sa=N
> 
> Then, you just adjust the "start" parameter, and bingo, you're backwards in
> history however far you want to go:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.toys.lego/topics?hl=en&start=40000&sa=N
> 
> However, a few problems.
> 
> 1) It thinks I'm a bot after browsing for some number of pages. Click "Older" or
> "Newer" so many times in a certain timeframe, and you trigger a bot warning.
> 
> 2) The posts are grouped by topic. These are annoying since:
> 2a) Some can be incorrectly classified (IIRC this happens now-and-again with
> newsreaders)
> 2b) The topic is ordered by the date of the LAST post. So if someone replied
> today to a topic from 1996, it would move the topic ALL the way to the front of
> the list.
> 2c) If the subject changes halfway through, there's no mention of the subject
> change in Google's condensed view.
> 
> 3) I'm sick of clicking "Newer", "Newer", "Newer", "Newer", until my fingers
> bleed. ... Or until it accuses me of being a bot.
> 
> Anyone here have any ideas on how to get the full archives for ATL/RTL? I
> shamefully haven't yet tried connecting to various NNTP servers to see how much
> history they have-- but I recall that most places didn't keep archives back all
> that long.  Maybe that's changed since disk space and bandwidth are cheaper
> these days, but I honestly don't know.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> DaveE

"Jedi DaveE, you can do it.  The force is strong with you.  Bleeding fingers is
a sign of being a Ninja master of knowledge."

I don't know how to get full archives of ATL/RTL.  I try it few years ago.  At a
time when few old search engines were still around.

I really had to think by using other search engines besides Google, Bing, Ask,
and others.

-Abner



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So, I'd love to browse RTL/ATL history. Google groups technically has a way to do this-- browsing groups with their web interface: (URL) you just adjust the "start" parameter, and bingo, you're backwards in history however far you want to go: (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 4-Feb-11, to lugnet.general)

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