Gordon Shumway wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:30:00 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

Gordon Shumway wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:29:24 -0700 (PDT), Mike
wrote:

So, I was trying to do a search of the group archives using Google
Groups. It seems that I'm only getting results from the past
month. I did a test search on the term 'saw' and only got 280
results, with the oldest being from July 9.

I've looked all over in the groups preferences and so on, but
cannot find anything that would set a limit on the age of the
results. Any one have the same problem, or a fix?

Get yourself a news reader and use a news server instead of Google.

A news readar and news server is not a substitute for the dejanews
archive that Google maintains, containing posts going back into the
late '80s.


I'm not too sure about your "dejanews archive" statement.

Read the wikipedia entry on "dejanews". If you are doubting the existence
of dejanews, google it. If you are doubting that Google took over the
archive, go to http://www.dejanews.com and see what you get. If you doubt
that the archive goes back to the 1980s then go to http://www.dejanews.com,
click "advanced search", set the Message Dates to 1 Jan 1981 to 1 Jan 1982,
and for "Group" put "*" (without the quotes), and see what you get.

I just
looked at Google Groups for the first time tonight. There are
currently 216,000+ messages archived in this group at Google. At the
same time there are also 216,000+ messages on NewsGuy. Actually there
are a few hundred more on newsguy than Google but who's counting.

With that information I wouldn't be surprised to know that Google is
maintaining a Newsguy archive.

Gordon Shumway