I could certainly write a script which would send an HTTP query to google, dump
the result into a file, and postprocess the file, but why? You think it's going
somewhere? Who would pay anything for stuff they can themselves google up for
free? I don't have anything against Teenut, but he was just one old machinist
with a lot of opinions, and there are lots of others who are still alive and can
answer specific questions I need answered. After you get past the basics of
stuff like how to cut metal, how to do parting in a lathe, what would you use it
for?

So you're basically wanting to do a lot of work to compile something useful only
for beginners.

Sounds like a lousy business proposition to me ..

GWE

David Merrill wrote:

Unless I'm missing something, doing an advanced Google Groups search on
author, "Robert Bastow" in "rec.crafts.metalworking" returns 2860 'threads'
containing one or more messages from Teenut buried among numerous other
messages. From these entire threads one would have to copy Teenut's
individual messages and paste them into a text file; certainly possible, but
a laborious process.

Can anyone identify a more efficient way; possibly some of you in the Linux
world, or are your Web/Usenet readers as insulated from scripting tools as
seems to be the current case in the Windows world?

David Merrill


"Nick Müller" wrote in message
...

David Merrill wrote:


Does anyone know a way, using Google or any other means, to bulk archive
the postings of a single author and save same to a CD. I'm talking

about

the individual, out-of-context messages, not the entire threads.

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?


Nick
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