Re: Past TO post links

jillery wrote:

On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:48:10 +0000, Martin Harran
<martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:26:55 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
wrote:
>

Now that google isn't archiving Newsgroups how do we link back to past
posts? I used to always use the google address for a post because it was
easy to get it, but that hasn't been possible after Google stopped
supporting newsgroups.

>
You can still link to old posts, I've given two links in reply to you
just a few minutes ago.  GG still exists as an archive, just search
for the relevant post and click on the 3 dots beside it to get the
link.

 
 
Given GG's infamous ability to repeatedly break their search engine,
it's likely that doing a successful search now is still the challenge.
 
 

I've tried to find how eternal september could do it, but they do not
seem to have a feature to provide the post address like google had.
>
Ron Okimoto

 
 
ES is a Usenet server.  To the best of my knowledge, none of them
provide search utilities.

Correct, you can only query your NSP server by Message ID.

Usenet has its own protocol and port, NNTP / Port 119.  It doesn't use
HTTP or URLs.  There is no framework within NNTP by which to search.  ES
and other NSPs do not use "post addresses", they go by Message IDs.  The
best you can do without a searchable archive site, like GG, is to
download a shitload of messages or message headers and search within
your newsreader.

In Agent and some other newsreaders, you can double-click on a MID and
it will fetch the post.  This won't help you unless you already know the
MID.  You can find upthread MIDs in the References: header, which may
occasionally help.