On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:41:24 -0700, symm <symm@nowhere.org> wrote:
>On 2017-07-20 17:55:02 +0000, Worker said:
>
>> Let's say (hypothetically) that I use a usenet server that has 10
>> years' retention.
>>
>> And let's say I rely on binsearch to locate files stored by my server --
>>
>> but binsearch only goes back 5 years.
>>
>> How the heck do I access the older 5 years of files?
>>
>> And what's the point of saving them if no one can get at them?
>
>Same issue here basically.
>
>I use NZBIndex for up to 1100 days since it has the best advanced
>search queries/filtering for me.
>
>I use NZBKing for older stuff (I've gotten results out to ~3100 days or
>about 8.5 years) but it has almost no filtering options and is best
>when you have enough filename info to reduce extraneous results.
>
>Beyond that I load all headers on the group(s) I want to search, but I
>tend not to use this as the default as it makes checking new headers
>slower for day-to-day use.
Same here also.
Thanks for the heads up on NZBKing, symm. The search results seem to
be a bit random but I did manage to pick up some interesting items
from 6 years ago at my first try and a comic posted in 2009 on my
second.
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