PC-DOS 3.3

Jim Leonard 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. And what if you locate someone in a post from ten years back who's no longer on that address? In the past, if the company was obvious in the email address, I'd look up the company name and politely contact them to see if the person I wanted to reach was still there but just on a different address. That's no longer possible now either... What bugs me is that Google have taken a useful archive and taken functionality away from the user. It's either Google Groups and not linked to Usenet, or it's a Usenet interface and should have the same functionality. What *really* bugs me is that Google may well have the only copy of such a historical archive of data, so it's not like you can even take your business elsewhere to someone who understands the historical importance of such an archive. If there was a choice, I'd send a polite email to Google saying why I thought they were muppets, and just go and use someone who gave you actual access to a Usenet archive rather than an abbreviated version of one.