On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:53:03 -0500, Paul wrote:

When a message hasn't yet shown up on a server
for some reason, Howard is my backup system.

Howard Knight is good.

Google is always fast nowadays (it used to not be that way in the past).

But Google is only good for the newsgroups they archive, e.g.,
http://tinyurl.com/windowsxp-general

The "Narkive" is slow, where it takes a day or two to show up:
http://alt.windows7.general.narkive.com
http://microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.narkive.com

The PC Banter site is even worse than that...
http://tinyurl.com/alt-windows7-general