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Windows 64bit - Re: Finding information in this newgroup |
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Good points, Frank.
Encouraging folks to help themselves using whatever mechanism works for them is good for everyone (almost, anyway...) "Frank Boyne" <> wrote in message news:%... > "Andre Da Costa" <> wrote in message > news:... >>I have to be honest, the search function in OE ain't all that its almost >>like a rubix cube. > > How good the OE search is depends heavily on how you've configured OE. In > Tools | Options | Maintenance if you set the options to delete read news > messages too soon then your search will have limited usefulness 'cause > there's not very much to search. Likewise, if you configure "Headers > only" synchronisation then you can't search the bodies of as-yet unread > messages. > > On the other hand, keep everything forever and you'll need terabytes of > storage :to hold it all -( > > Typically Google is a much better search tool for newsgroups, they do have > terabytes of storage. However so far but they only have a handful of the > posts from this newsgroup. Still, Google search should only get better > http://groups-beta.google.com/advanc... 4bit.general > > Another option is Microsoft's web interface to newsgroups. I don't like > using it to read news but it is useful as a search tool when Google > doesn't work > http://www.microsoft.com/communities...4bit.gen eral > bxle |
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