Re: Old messages missing on the present newsgroup

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> Some old messages sent to the present newsgroup
>>>> are not accessible, it seems, if I search for them via
>>>> nntp server, whereas they're seen through web interface
>>>> and also in the archives of the info-gnus-english@gnu.org mailing list.
>>
>>> [...] the article is present in Google archives, at:
>>>
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.gnus/browse_thread/thread/6bb69dcdf1548e17/10c9d5f223a33d19?q=medina&rnum=4#10c9d5f223a33d19
>>>
>>> , and also in the archives of the info-gnus-english@gnu.org mailing list, 
>>> here:
>>>
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnus-english/2004-09/msg00114.html
>>>
>>> , so it *can't* be really expired or canceled, and there *must* (or should) 
>>> be a way to fetch it via gnus.
>
> Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@priv.onet.pl> writes:
>> One source suggest that google may be picky about browser:
>> http://my.gnus.org/node/95?PHPSESSID=dae6988877b26346b80f5fedd707cf40&menus_expanded%5B1%5D=1&PHPSESSID=dae6988877b26346b80f5fedd707cf40
>> [it did not help]
>>
>> Another source states the method may to "survive" changes in google
>> replies format:
>> http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_189.html
>
>
>
> Thanks, Andrzej:
> following the second source indications: in group buffer I did 'G w',
> chose 'google' as 'searching engine type', entered the desired string and...
> all five the articles of the thread were found!, but they're all blank... :(
>
> Other suggestions welcome.
> Rodolfo

Most likely google has changed "output format" (may be search url too).
I have not seen the implementation, I do not feel competent to modify it.

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