Kris Tilford wrote: > 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. > > I agree. I had to find an newer/old message that ref'd a msg from last May to refer someone to recently after trying a search.
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