On Mon, 15 May 2006 22:55:35 GMT, "David Merrill"
wrote:

Who said anything about a business ? How much faith have you in the future
of free Google groups searches (remember Dejanews?) or in the future of
Usenet newsgroups for that matter ?

I thought I made it excruciatingly clear that I'd like to avoid a lot of
work :-) I, personally, would thoroughly enjoy reading a compendium of
certain contributors to rec.crafts.metalworking using Teenut as one
outstanding example; and I don't consider myself as strictly a beginner,
IMHO.

And what have you got against beginners ? I seem to recall you being an HSM
beginner not so long ago.

David Merrill


Point, set and match G



"Grant Erwin" wrote in message
...
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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