13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
11:18 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Even if they've used a munged email address, as
most people posting to
Usenet do these days? I can't imagine teams of Google staff reading
every single message posted daily to Usenet and sanitising spam-trapped
email addresses for the purpose of their archives.
All I know is that I was able to spend 4 minutes tracking down someone based on
the email they used in a 1997 USENET posting and they replied (somewhat
surprised). It can be done.
And what if you locate someone in a post from ten
years back who's no
longer on that address?
Then Google revealing the address wouldn't help you anyway. Your point again?
Don't blame google, blame spammers who ruined it for everyone.
What bugs me is that Google have taken a useful
archive and taken
functionality away from the user.
The google USENET archive isn't useful or functional? You seriously think that?
As for being "the only game in town", they expanded their USENET archive at
considerable expense above and beyond the old dejanews archives:
http://groups.google.com/group/google.public.support.general/msg/d88f36fb3e…
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