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Martin Brown wrote:

Any reasonable individual would be well advised to use Google groups to
search through historic Usenet postings on a given topic.

Perhaps I know too much to be reasonable. I used to use it, quite
a lot, but gave up when it became so unreliable that other approaches
were several times less effort. Every now and then, I recheck, and
it is no better. Of course, I am looking for posts that I know were
made, but quite a lot time ago, and I am pretty sure that it indexes
only a small proportion of older ones.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.