Goggle has actually gone back to the beginning of USENET and has all of
the articles, unless you want yours "removed" from view.

Way back to 1981 or there abouts.

wrote:
I'm out of the loop with what you all are talking about, but I've been
very satisfied with Google. It can go back to 1996 on some stuff.
probably even farther than that.

I can't do binaries though.


oh well.......



JohnH wrote:
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:01:15 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:03:42 -0400, JohnH penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:59:06 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:25:55 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

I upgraded to Agent 4.0 yesterday and it blew everything up - wiped
all the messages and threads. I had to scramble to find the Agent 3
file to restore some functionality to Usenet functions.

Not only that, but it wiped all the threads out and I can't find where
I was in the discussion cycle with John and others.

You heard tell of such a thing?
No.... ! What did you upgrade from, Version 3.3? Are you sure you
upgraded into the same directory?
Couldn't he also just retrieve all headers for the group, sort by date,
delete all but the last couple days, and then sort by thread?

I'm not sure what version 4.0 does, but it's easy repopulate a group's
headers with 1.91.
I suspect that is the course taken, but if SWS keeps a history of
older posts those will have scrolled off of the ISPs server and will
be forever lost (in the Usenet format).
My ISP carries them back to Jan, '06, some 36000+ headers. But I think he's
only really interested in the past few days.
--
******************************************
***** Hope your day is great! *****
******************************************

John

Probably so, but I've oly looksed for info and found '96



Bert Robbins wrote:
Goggle has actually gone back to the beginning of USENET and has all of
the articles, unless you want yours "removed" from view.

Way back to 1981 or there abouts.

wrote:
I'm out of the loop with what you all are talking about, but I've been
very satisfied with Google. It can go back to 1996 on some stuff.
probably even farther than that.

I can't do binaries though.


oh well.......



JohnH wrote:
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:01:15 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:03:42 -0400, JohnH penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:59:06 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:25:55 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

I upgraded to Agent 4.0 yesterday and it blew everything up - wiped
all the messages and threads. I had to scramble to find the Agent 3
file to restore some functionality to Usenet functions.

Not only that, but it wiped all the threads out and I can't find where
I was in the discussion cycle with John and others.

You heard tell of such a thing?
No.... ! What did you upgrade from, Version 3.3? Are you sure you
upgraded into the same directory?
Couldn't he also just retrieve all headers for the group, sort by date,
delete all but the last couple days, and then sort by thread?

I'm not sure what version 4.0 does, but it's easy repopulate a group's
headers with 1.91.
I suspect that is the course taken, but if SWS keeps a history of
older posts those will have scrolled off of the ISPs server and will
be forever lost (in the Usenet format).
My ISP carries them back to Jan, '06, some 36000+ headers. But I think he's
only really interested in the past few days.
--
******************************************
***** Hope your day is great! *****
******************************************

John