April 23rd 20, 06:05 PM
posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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List of my posts
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.
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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.
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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