Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 07/27/06 07:17

On 2006-07-27, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article
><doraymeRidThis-104BB9.15270227072006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> That is exactly what I don't want to do. I did not want to do it
>> on dial up because it is too slow, I don't want to do it on my
>> broadband at the cost of bandwidth and then still search
>> heavily... perhaps there is a way I don't know to search for
>> specific things if you know the subject title?
>
> My dial-up provider doesn't charge me to download headers. My newsgroup
> provider (supernews) does keep a tally and will charge me over a certain
> large limit. Searching groups for specific articles is not my forte
> either. Twelve years on Usenet and I don't know how to do it, but in my
> defense, I've never tried a Usenet article search. I see people provide
> references all the time.
> A quick reference to Google with my particular search string didn't give
> anything obvious either.
> So, folks, cough up the missing obvious. I want an article posted
> possibly last year from some random poster, but I forget the subject. I
> vaguely remember the gist of the thread. How do I easily get that :-)

<http://groups.google.com/advanced_search>

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