phorbin wrote:

It was a failed attempt to migrate the Dejanews database to Google. I
don't know how much they lost, but every thing I'd written was erased
from the record and I'd been a participant all over the place for a long
time.

There was a sorta oops, we broke it permanently message when it
happened. --I'll admit to wondering if they meant to break it.

The information is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_News

Did you even read the above article? Generally, if you post a link to
support your case, the link supports your case? I know doing a search on
"the" back to 1981 you get messages posted back that far. What parts of
usenet is archived, or if any message have been lost, or removed, I
certainly can't say, and your wikipedia link doesn't say Google lost
anything.

If you can't find messages you know you posted, I guess either they were
lost, or, your search parameters didn't work, or, the search engine
isn't working.

I know while looking through some of this I found Google said they have
over a TRILLION web pages indexed. I know, thats not messages but that
is a hell of a lot of pages. For an old guy like me, I'm constantly
amazed at how fast all this stuff works. Storing this much stuff is
awesome, but searching through it for info is mind boggling to me.

--
Jack
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