mike wrote:

Anyone else found that searching the uk.d-i-y archive via Google
groups seems not to work any more?

Google are the archive - not just the search mechanism these days (since
they acquired DejaNews a few years back).

The posts all seem to be there - but the searching can be hit and miss
at the moment.

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.d-i-y/about?hl=en

lists stuff back to Dec 94 - sometimes it will link through to it, but
other times not.

Some searches for topics that've been covered a dozen times produce no
hits and others just one or two recent postings.

Sometimes when you get some hits, click the sort by date link - you then
get loads more...

Is there any other means of searching the archive or are old posts
effectively inaccessible?

If you have a direct link to them then they can often still be retrieved.

--
Cheers,

John.

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