Does anyone know an easy way to search Usenet?

[Baitball Blogger]

I am looking for the a poem that someone was talking about in a thread that posted on a newsgroup. I was able to retrieve it when we had Dejanews to use, but, that, of course, does not exist anymore.

[ChromeFoundry]

1. did you already try Google Groups?

https://groups.google.com

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I could not make any sense of it.

I need an advance search. Two keywords and a date range. I didn't see anything like that when I tried. I will keep trying.

[bananas]

3. Hey, where did advanced search go?

It used to be there!

There are other usenet archives.

Some links from http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/199/are-there-open-complete-usenet-archives

http://www.theusenetarchive.com/

https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive

http://ianmilligan.ca/2013/03/06/exploring-the-usenet-archive-early-thoughts/

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Thanks! I'll drop in and see if I can make one of those work.

[bananas]

4. Found it - see the replies in this thread

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/news.software.readers/IdRY8FQh8xE

specifically this one:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/news.software.readers/IdRY8FQh8xE/L1mW99PwL1kJ

<snip>

The Google Groups Advanced Search page has moved.

1) This screen-shot shows where you now find Google Groups
Advanced Search:


2) On this Google Groups help page, the 3rd paragraph describes
in words where you now find Google Groups Advanced Search
https://support.google.com/groups/answer/46024

| However, if you need something more specific, we highly recommend
| using our advanced search options, which you can access by clicking
| the arrow on the right side of the search box. These options allow
| you to search for groups or message with these characteristics:

[Baitball Blogger]

7. OH, hey! That's just too convenient.

THank!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. Did you use anything special to create that gif?

Did you capture the two images while clicking and create the gif on the fly or did you have to capture them and open them in a regular graphics program (Fireworks, Photoshop, Gimp, etc)?

[bananas]

9. No, I just cut-n-pasted the link from the other website.

I had nothing to do with creating the gif,
I just put the link to it in my post and the DU message board software made it display inline.

[bananas]

5. You can also type in customized search options

From http://support.google.com/groups/answer/46024

Search Terms

Using search terms is a helpful way to more easily narrow down your search results. Insert a search term in the search field and then type the rest of your query. Notes:

- A topic is made up of the original message and reply messages.

- Searches with “email” variables only work if you are searching within a group where you have the "view member emails" permission, or if you are searching within a domain set to "Private" under Sharing Options for Google Groups for Business.


Following is a list of search terms:

after:YYYY/MM/DD

Include only messages created after the YYYY/MM/DD date. For example, after:2011/11/02.

<snip big list of options>

Tip: You can also reverse a particular search term by putting a '-' in front of it. For example, the search author:me -category:example will return topics authored by you that are not in the " example" category.