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Re: Real Life Puzzle -- Searching Google Groups
Posted:
Nov 8, 2009 1:53 PM
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Chip Eastham <hardmath@gmail.com> writes:
> On Nov 8, 10:14 am, Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demun...@yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> Leroy Quet <qqq...@mindspring.com> writes:
>
>> > doing a search for "Leroy Quet" has not
>> > worked at all for at least a year or two now.
>>
>> Google groups sucks. That's basically all there is to know.
>> The puzzle is why anyone still thinks otherwise.
>
> Hi, Phil:
>
> Is there another repository of Usenet posts
> going back two or three decades?
Google groups doesn't even go back months reliably. Google's
repositories were not archived by google themselves, but by
many other parties, who shared them with google as a matter
of good will. To see google shit on them so is a disgrace.
If you still blindly and stupidly believe that google groups
is a reliable archive for usenet posts, then tell me how many
times I've said "google groups sucks" in a usenet post in
the last decade. The results will be out by a factor of 10-100,
I bet you.
I dare you to put your height as 5cm on your passport application,
or age 1234. Errors of that magnitude are simply not to be brushed
off with "well, they're the best there is", they're to be treated
with derision.
Phil, feeling dirty having to pull a google groups post out
of his mark-read filter in order to reply to it.
--
Any true emperor never needs to wear clothes. -- Devany on r.a.s.f1
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