[Michael McNeil]

On the Google database the threads go back to the end of 2002. Was there
a change of server that year?

I was looking to see what was in the threads in the middle of July 1998.


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[martin rowley]

"Michael McNeil" wrote in message
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On the Google database the threads go back to the end of 2002. Was
there
a change of server that year?

I was looking to see what was in the threads in the middle of July
1998.



.... not sure how you are using Google, but I have just typed my name in
and found my first post in 1996. There have been changes - Google
absorbed someone else (DejaNews??) so there may be a split at that
point, but I've never had any problem tracing threads - have just typed
in 'thickness' and followed a thread back to 1996.

Martin.

[Michael McNeil]

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message


... not sure how you are using Google, but I have just typed my name in
and found my first post in 1996. There have been changes - Google
absorbed someone else (DejaNews??) so there may be a split at that
point, but I've never had any problem tracing threads - have just typed
in 'thickness' and followed a thread back to 1996.

I have it set to show 100 threads and call up the past in 100's. If you
ctr/end and click on "show next 100" you can only go back 8 or 9 times.
I was after the goings on on here around the time of the disasterous
quake that hit PNG in 1998 (July 17.)

By the way put your name in and see whose posts have got mixed up with
yours in the middle on May last year. Remember that patch of multiple
posts when a virus got a lot of servers?


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[martin rowley]

Well, I can only say how I would approach the problem: I use the
'Advanced Groups Search'; leave the 'Find Messages' area blank, select
uk.sci.weather (in the newsgroup dialogue), then set the exact date (or
a small range of dates to avoid too many posts at once) in the 'Return
messages posted between' dialogue. I've just done it for the 17th, 18th
and 19th July, 1998 and retrieved all posts in the threads offered.

Martin.

[Michael McNeil]

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message


Well, I can only say how I would approach the problem: I use the
'Advanced Groups Search'; leave the 'Find Messages' area blank, select
uk.sci.weather (in the newsgroup dialogue), then set the exact date (or
a small range of dates to avoid too many posts at once) in the 'Return
messages posted between' dialogue. I've just done it for the 17th, 18th
and 19th July, 1998 and retrieved all posts in the threads offered.

This is what I got for 12 to 21 July 1998:

11 Aug 1998 High coming back? (4 articles)
11 Aug 1998 Abbreviations and the FAQ (4 articles) Peter Wright
11 Aug 1998 BYO at Bombay Restaurant (4 articles) Will
11 Aug 1998 The (im)Perfect Storm (8 articles) Rob Pinelli
11 Aug 1998 Eclipse Weather (1 article) GJBowles
11 Aug 1998 Hot Weather Causes Low Tides??? (7 articles) Paul Hyett
11 Aug 1998 Davis weather station wanted (1 article) Roy & Jan White
11 Aug 1998 Contrails in Channel (1 article) Philip Layton
11 Aug 1998 Funnel Cloud (4 articles) Norman Lynagh
11 Aug 1998 Weather View software (1 article) John G Dann
11 Aug 1998 Hot and Humid in Northamptonshire (1 article) Mike Lewis
19 Jul 1998 tornado joke (3 articles) DSMedia
19 Jul 1998 Food for thought (longish) (13 articles) Will
19 Jul 1998 UK Summer (1 article) Nigel Somerset
19 Jul 1998 Gatwick Replacement (4 articles) Will
19 Jul 1998 Faulty Minimum Thermometer (5 articles) Peter Wright
19 Jul 1998 Hot in USA (6 articles) Simon Wyndham
19 Jul 1998 European temperatures (9 articles) Max Pilotti
19 Jul 1998 What makes a rainbow? (5 articles) Rob Nicholson
19 Jul 1998 Is summer finally arriving? (5 articles) Matt
19 Jul 1998 Global Warming etc. (3 articles) Jon O'Rourke
18 Jul 1998 What makes a cloud.....? (7 articles) Rodney Blackall
18 Jul 1998 Get that hat out ! (1 article) Jon O'Rourke
18 Jul 1998 Monday (5 articles) Jon O'Rourke
18 Jul 1998 North Atlantic OWS that were... (3 articles) M&M
18 Jul 1998 Has Summer arrived? (5 articles) Will
17 Jul 1998 Global Warming? (83 articles) Evert Wesker
16 Jul 1998 request: info or pointers on hurricane of 1987 (9 articles)
Rob Overfield
16 Jul 1998 Where's the FAQ? (1 article) Martin Rowley
16 Jul 1998 Current pressure chat (5 articles) KD
15 Jul 1998 Senior Forecast Meteorologist Required (1 article) Bill
Thompson
15 Jul 1998 Cloud/contrail (14 articles) Matt
14 Jul 1998 From Hull to Berkshire (2 articles) Paul Bartlett
14 Jul 1998 Recent poor summers compared with this one? (4 articles)
Peter Robins
14 Jul 1998 TS Wokingham (5 articles) Will
14 Jul 1998 Warm sector moving W over N Scandinavia (2 articles)
Steinar Midtskogen
14 Jul 1998 Radar images ? (5 articles) Paul Hyett
14 Jul 1998 Schools meteorology (1 article) Roger Brugge
14 Jul 1998 Storm in Reading, 13/6 (2 articles) Jon Witty
13 Jul 1998 Sudden thunder storm (1 article) Clive May
13 Jul 1998 London (10 articles) Keith Harris
13 Jul 1998 Weather in Suffolk (2 articles) Roger Brugge
13 Jul 1998 strange cloud pattern in meteosat VIS (4 articles) Mike
Lewis
12 Jul 1998 REQ Siân Lloyd, info wanted (3 articles) Martin Preece
12 Jul 1998 Jet Stream (13 articles) Paul Foster
12 Jul 1998 Help: Digital Barometer. (4 articles) Barry keal
12 Jul 1998 Windy, not! (3 articles) Jon Witty
12 Jul 1998 System Developing In Atlantic 7/12? (1 article) Scott
Hegmann
12 Jul 1998 SUNRISE IN EVENING (3 articles) Mark
12 Jul 1998 Red Lightning?? (2 articles) buslot
12 Jul 1998 Meterology tomorrow (2 articles) David Kilham

I find it hard to believe that the weather for the middle of July wasn't
more interesting than this would indicate


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