The Group search doesnt work like their literal Internet search. Im
not sure its even keyword based. I think it is topic based on the
thread. If I cant find it one way I try another. All the threads by
author by date seems reliable. Sometimes I use site:http://
groups.google.com/ or simply rec.food.drink.tea with their search
engine. Google Groups never forgets but it is hide and seek
sometimes.

Jim

On Jun 29, 9:27 pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> Aaron W. Hsu > wrote:
>
> >Space Cowboy > writes:
>
> >>Google Groups never forgets.
>
> >I don't know what Google Groups you've been using, but I have had a
> >terrible time with getting Google Groups to find old messages that I
> >wanted, and there were times when whole groups just up and disappeared.
>
> The messages aren't gone, but the Google Groups indices are getting
> corrupted. And there's nobody at Google that seems to care about reports
> about the problems.
>
> There are a lot of messages that I can find by message-id but not by
> keywords, for instance. Doing searches by keyword often fails completely.
>
> As far as I can tell, google uses the Google Groups operation as a dumping
> ground for their less competent employees... if indeed they actually have
> any employees there at all and aren't just letting everything run on automatic.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."