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History

Posted: 24 Aug 1999 00:00
by Chris locke
I'm using Outlook Express to view this group, and it goes back now to June
(when there were only a splattering of posts a week)
I just looked and DejaNews doesn't run this group (well, not that I could
find)

Is anyone interested in viewing this back-catalogue?? It seems kinda sad to
just dump it all, and I'm not too sure how to go about saving it (well,
apart from trying to archive it to an Access database or something...)


Comments please??

Re: History

Posted: 24 Aug 1999 00:00
by Edward Bernard
Chris locke <mcmuff...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:935527994.4045.0.nnrp-08.c1ed2dd7@news.demon.co.uk...
I'm using Outlook Express to view this group, and it goes back now to June
(when there were only a splattering of posts a week)
I just looked and DejaNews doesn't run this group (well, not that I could
find)
Chris, if you tell Deja to search for the precise name of this newsgroup,
you should find it. I occasionally use Deja when I'm on my free connection.
Is anyone interested in viewing this back-catalogue?? It seems kinda sad
to
just dump it all, and I'm not too sure how to go about saving it (well,
apart from trying to archive it to an Access database or something...)
I was collecting the entire archive but I forgot to disable the delete
posts option in the Outlook Express options.


Eddie

Re: History

Posted: 24 Aug 1999 00:00
by Dan Ros
In <935527994.4045.0.nnrp-08.c1ed2...@news.demon.co.uk>, "Chris locke"
<mcmuff...@yahoo.com> wrote...
I'm using Outlook Express to view this group, and it goes back now to June
(when there were only a splattering of posts a week)
I just looked and DejaNews doesn't run this group (well, not that I could
find)

Is anyone interested in viewing this back-catalogue?? It seems kinda sad to
just dump it all, and I'm not too sure how to go about saving it (well,
apart from trying to archive it to an Access database or something...)
If you can get Outlook Express to make a Unix-compatible message file,
then most people will be able to import it into their newsgroup
programs.
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Re: History

Posted: 25 Aug 1999 00:00
by Chris locke
If you can get Outlook Express to make a Unix-compatible message file,
I can't export it at all - and the native message file is semi-text.
I can manually export it to a text file or something ... theres only 304
messages, so it won't take too long. Just wondered if anyone else wanted
it...

Re: History

Posted: 25 Aug 1999 00:00
by Chris locke
Deja does carry this group...
Apparently so. I must admit I didn't look that hard. I did a search for
"tycoon" and certain sentances I knew to be in the group, and it just
coughed at me. I'll have another go...

Re: History

Posted: 25 Aug 1999 00:00
by Chris locke
but I forgot to disable the delete posts option in the Outlook Express
options.
It doesn't matter what you select - Outlook still tries to delete "expired"
items. Grr.

Re: History

Posted: 26 Aug 1999 00:00
by eraser
yes please

Chris locke wrote:
If you can get Outlook Express to make a Unix-compatible message file,
I can't export it at all - and the native message file is semi-text.
I can manually export it to a text file or something ... theres only 304
messages, so it won't take too long. Just wondered if anyone else wanted
it...