List of my posts
 

Is there a way that I can find a list of my posts here?

(Sometimes I forget where I posted a particular post I have made.

Thanks,
Andy

List of my posts
 

Andy wrote:
Is there a way that I can find a list of my posts here?

(Sometimes I forget where I posted a particular post I have made.

Thanks,
Andy

There used to be, but it no longer exists.

groups.google.com used to keep "profiles".

If you made 20000 posts, they were sorted by the month you
made them. You could navigate to a month folder, and click
on individual items.

They got rid of profiles.

Now, you can't do that any more.

It also destroys the only reason to keep a
consistent identifier in the header of your posts.
With no profile keeping, your posts aren't sitting
in Google Groups all organized for you.

*******

You are a Google Grouper, using a web interface to USENET.
Whatever features google provided, that's what you get.
If there's no column to "sort by user", then you can't
sort by user. (I checked, and there's no column for that.)

If you use a standalone client program for Windows ("Thunderbird"),
and connect to one of the smaller privately owned "free" servers,
the client can have a column with the username listed. If
you click the column-sort triangle at the top, the posts
are sorted by username instead of being sorted by thread-date
or similar.

This allows you, by scrolling down a bit, to find all the
posts that say "Andy". These are posts, where the headers
have been noted by the Windows client program, but the body
of the posts isn't necessarily stored on your hard drive.
But by seeing the header info, you can see all the posts you made.

Once you're finished searching by username that way,
you can click the button to sort by thread-date again,
and after a few seconds the display returns to "normal".

Paul

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Paul wrote:
Andy wrote:
Is there a way that I can find a list of my posts here?

(Sometimes I forget where I posted a particular post I have made.
Thanks,
Andy

There used to be, but it no longer exists.

groups.google.com used to keep "profiles".

If you made 20000 posts, they were sorted by the month you
made them. You could navigate to a month folder, and click
on individual items.

They got rid of profiles.

Now, you can't do that any more.

It also destroys the only reason to keep a
consistent identifier in the header of your posts.
With no profile keeping, your posts aren't sitting
in Google Groups all organized for you.

*******

You are a Google Grouper, using a web interface to USENET.
Whatever features google provided, that's what you get.
If there's no column to "sort by user", then you can't
sort by user. (I checked, and there's no column for that.)

If you use a standalone client program for Windows ("Thunderbird"),
and connect to one of the smaller privately owned "free" servers,
the client can have a column with the username listed. If
you click the column-sort triangle at the top, the posts
are sorted by username instead of being sorted by thread-date
or similar.

This allows you, by scrolling down a bit, to find all the
posts that say "Andy". These are posts, where the headers
have been noted by the Windows client program, but the body
of the posts isn't necessarily stored on your hard drive.
But by seeing the header info, you can see all the posts you made.

Once you're finished searching by username that way,
you can click the button to sort by thread-date again,
and after a few seconds the display returns to "normal".

Another reason to NOT use gg but a standalone client is that you can configure
the client to store all sent messages locally on your computer. That's what I
have done and now I have access to all messages I ever posted in any newsgroup.
This is similar to using the external news server, but has the advantage that it
keeps all messages from years ago where they might have expired on the server.

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On 22/04/2020 10:11, Patok wrote:
Paul wrote:
Andy wrote:
Is there a way that I can find a list of my posts here?

(Sometimes I forget where I posted a particular post I have made.
Thanks,
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* Andy

There used to be, but it no longer exists.

groups.google.com used to keep "profiles".

If you made 20000 posts, they were sorted by the month you
made them. You could navigate to a month folder, and click
on individual items.

They got rid of profiles.

Now, you can't do that any more.

It also destroys the only reason to keep a
consistent identifier in the header of your posts.
With no profile keeping, your posts aren't sitting
in Google Groups all organized for you.

*******

You are a Google Grouper, using a web interface to USENET.
Whatever features google provided, that's what you get.
If there's no column to "sort by user", then you can't
sort by user. (I checked, and there's no column for that.)

If you use a standalone client program for Windows ("Thunderbird"),
and connect to one of the smaller privately owned "free" servers,
the client can have a column with the username listed. If
you click the column-sort triangle at the top, the posts
are sorted by username instead of being sorted by thread-date
or similar.

This allows you, by scrolling down a bit, to find all the
posts that say "Andy". These are posts, where the headers
have been noted by the Windows client program, but the body
of the posts isn't necessarily stored on your hard drive.
But by seeing the header info, you can see all the posts you made.

Once you're finished searching by username that way,
you can click the button to sort by thread-date again,
and after a few seconds the display returns to "normal".

Another reason to NOT use gg but a standalone client is that you can
configure the client to store all sent messages locally on your
computer. That's what I have done and now I have access to all messages
I ever posted in any newsgroup. This is similar to using the external
news server, but has the advantage that it keeps all messages from years
ago where they might have expired on the server.

Thanks for that.
I have been using Thunderbird for years but had no idea it was already
set up to do exactly what you suggested. Local Folders/Sent has all my
posts since 2015!

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MikeS wrote:
On 22/04/2020 10:11, Patok wrote:
Paul wrote:
Andy wrote:
Is there a way that I can find a list of my posts here?

(Sometimes I forget where I posted a particular post I have made.
Thanks,
Andy

There used to be, but it no longer exists.

groups.google.com used to keep "profiles".

If you made 20000 posts, they were sorted by the month you
made them. You could navigate to a month folder, and click
on individual items.

They got rid of profiles.

Now, you can't do that any more.

It also destroys the only reason to keep a
consistent identifier in the header of your posts.
With no profile keeping, your posts aren't sitting
in Google Groups all organized for you.

*******

You are a Google Grouper, using a web interface to USENET.
Whatever features google provided, that's what you get.
If there's no column to "sort by user", then you can't
sort by user. (I checked, and there's no column for that.)

If you use a standalone client program for Windows ("Thunderbird"),
and connect to one of the smaller privately owned "free" servers,
the client can have a column with the username listed. If
you click the column-sort triangle at the top, the posts
are sorted by username instead of being sorted by thread-date
or similar.

This allows you, by scrolling down a bit, to find all the
posts that say "Andy". These are posts, where the headers
have been noted by the Windows client program, but the body
of the posts isn't necessarily stored on your hard drive.
But by seeing the header info, you can see all the posts you made.

Once you're finished searching by username that way,
you can click the button to sort by thread-date again,
and after a few seconds the display returns to "normal".

Another reason to NOT use gg but a standalone client is that you can
configure the client to store all sent messages locally on your
computer. That's what I have done and now I have access to all
messages I ever posted in any newsgroup. This is similar to using the
external news server, but has the advantage that it keeps all messages
from years ago where they might have expired on the server.

Thanks for that.
I have been using Thunderbird for years but had no idea it was already
set up to do exactly what you suggested. Local Folders/Sent has all my
posts since 2015!


What this is missing though, is MID values.

The TBird Sent folder is a good way to keep URLs
you've posted in the past. Or the text. But the
one thing it's missing is the header MID, and for
that you look in the group where it was received later,
to get the MID. This is useful if you need to provide
an easy reference for someone later. Like this
(the example being, your message).

for people with clients that accept a MID
as a search mechanism, of their local header store.
Doesn't work in TB that I'm aware of. (Since
they're still working on Thunderbird, anything
is possible... some day.)

http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=ms...nt-email.me%3E

Google Groups is no longer a complete archive, so
can't be counted on as an archival store. There
are alt.* groups missing. The adding of any Big8
groups likely works OK, as that's automated (signed
newgroup messages from Big8 management board).

Paul

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On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 11:51:16 AM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
MikeS wrote:
On 22/04/2020 10:11, Patok wrote:
Paul wrote:
Andy wrote:
Is there a way that I can find a list of my posts here?

(Sometimes I forget where I posted a particular post I have made.
Thanks,
Andy

There used to be, but it no longer exists.

groups.google.com used to keep "profiles".

If you made 20000 posts, they were sorted by the month you
made them. You could navigate to a month folder, and click
on individual items.

They got rid of profiles.

Now, you can't do that any more.

It also destroys the only reason to keep a
consistent identifier in the header of your posts.
With no profile keeping, your posts aren't sitting
in Google Groups all organized for you.

*******

You are a Google Grouper, using a web interface to USENET.
Whatever features google provided, that's what you get.
If there's no column to "sort by user", then you can't
sort by user. (I checked, and there's no column for that.)

If you use a standalone client program for Windows ("Thunderbird"),
and connect to one of the smaller privately owned "free" servers,
the client can have a column with the username listed. If
you click the column-sort triangle at the top, the posts
are sorted by username instead of being sorted by thread-date
or similar.

This allows you, by scrolling down a bit, to find all the
posts that say "Andy". These are posts, where the headers
have been noted by the Windows client program, but the body
of the posts isn't necessarily stored on your hard drive.
But by seeing the header info, you can see all the posts you made.

Once you're finished searching by username that way,
you can click the button to sort by thread-date again,
and after a few seconds the display returns to "normal".

Another reason to NOT use gg but a standalone client is that you can
configure the client to store all sent messages locally on your
computer. That's what I have done and now I have access to all
messages I ever posted in any newsgroup. This is similar to using the
external news server, but has the advantage that it keeps all messages
from years ago where they might have expired on the server.

Thanks for that.
I have been using Thunderbird for years but had no idea it was already
set up to do exactly what you suggested. Local Folders/Sent has all my
posts since 2015!


What this is missing though, is MID values.

The TBird Sent folder is a good way to keep URLs
you've posted in the past. Or the text. But the
one thing it's missing is the header MID, and for
that you look in the group where it was received later,
to get the MID. This is useful if you need to provide
an easy reference for someone later. Like this
(the example being, your message).

for people with clients that accept a MID
as a search mechanism, of their local header store.
Doesn't work in TB that I'm aware of. (Since
they're still working on Thunderbird, anything
is possible... some day.)

http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=ms...nt-email.me%3E

Google Groups is no longer a complete archive, so
can't be counted on as an archival store. There
are alt.* groups missing. The adding of any Big8
groups likely works OK, as that's automated (signed
newgroup messages from Big8 management board).

Paul

Thanks for all the answers.

Andy

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In response to what Andy wrote :

Thanks for all the answers.

Hi Andy,

If you go to the Google Group web page for this newsgroup:
http://tinyurl.com/windowsxp-general

And then you click on any post of yours such as this one.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/xw5gwyTaDZo

You can show a list of posts from you like this does:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!profile/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/APn2wQcIPk80JPS0ZsYt3l4-PfFb3wsuvGPA5zykt_zSjnqMiL4J4FbNTx0R-53pKyix7xC7kFv8

What I don't know is how inclusive that list is.
o Can you check that list to tell us what it's missing of your posts?
--
Together we can do much more on Windows than any of us can do all alone.

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On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 4:55:59 PM UTC-5, Arlen Holder wrote:
In response to what Andy wrote :

Thanks for all the answers.

Hi Andy,

If you go to the Google Group web page for this newsgroup:
http://tinyurl.com/windowsxp-general

And then you click on any post of yours such as this one.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/xw5gwyTaDZo

You can show a list of posts from you like this does:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!profile/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/APn2wQcIPk80JPS0ZsYt3l4-PfFb3wsuvGPA5zykt_zSjnqMiL4J4FbNTx0R-53pKyix7xC7kFv8

What I don't know is how inclusive that list is.
o Can you check that list to tell us what it's missing of your posts?
--
Together we can do much more on Windows than any of us can do all alone.

As far as I can tell, the list has all my posts.

Andy

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In response to what Andy wrote :

As far as I can tell, the list has all my posts.

That's GREAT!
o Thanks for reporting back your success to the team.

To me it was glaringly obvious to assume Google tracks our posts based on
our header information. :)

Personally I don't use this mechanism to find my own posts, as I
purposefully randomize the worthless yet identifying information in the
header (such as the Usenet reader, timezone, nntp provider, NNTP posting
host, etc.) to maintain some semblance of privacy, so it's kind of bad for
me that Google archives this stuff so easily if you want to remain private.

If you wish to remain private, I'd suggest changing your nym every once in
a while (just like changing VPN and browser fingerprinting things such as
the time zone, etc., help to foil robotic privacy sweepers).

I know a lot of morons claim that's bad, but those morons are _always_ the
ones who have _nothing_ of value to add, where my philosophy is that the
only header that matters is the SUBJECT line since the value of a Usenet
post is in the BODY and not in the headers.

I even change my timezone constantly, automatically, where, I think I'm
coming from either India or Russia at the moment (my point being that the
information is in the BODY not in the header).

Since they use the HEADER to track your movements, that's why I suggest
randomizing it; but if you don't, then Google will be glad to track you (as
you've just seen).
--
All Usenet posters can be grouped into two categories: Helpful & worthless.