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echo: fidonews
to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2019-11-27 19:06:00
subject: Re: how to hunt for speci

-=> On 11-27-19 05:17, August Abolins wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 AA> [1] A work-around to that might be to fetch an nntp feed of
 AA> FNEWS_PUBLISH, (my current feed only goes as far back as 2018),
 AA> configure your nntp reader to download the messages for local usage,
 AA> and then use the built-in search features of the reader to search by
 AA> subject or content as necessary.

Well, if there's a BBS that has it further back, I could take a feed then point
a newsreader at my own NNTP server. ;)

 AA> [2] Another way to hunt for an article would be here:

 AA>  http://www.fidonet.itu.se/echomail/

 AA> It archives the FIDONEWS posts as far back as 2004. It does not feature
 AA> a S)earch option, but you can L)ist the messages by Subject, and
 AA> identify the headings that represent articles using Ctrl-F in your
 AA> browser.

Hmm, OK. :)


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