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.

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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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