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Subject: Re: PSA: How to find an article in web-searchable no-registration Usenet archives
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On 6/7/26 08:26, Maria Sophia wrote:
> PSA:
> How to find an article in web-searchable no-registration Usenet archives
> 
>  From another thread on comp.mobile.android today...
>   From: Alan Peeling <Alan@invalid.co.uk>
>   Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
>   Subject: Re: Can¢t Set File Permissions
>   Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 12:46:19 +0100
>   Message-ID: <1103lmc$2fu0p$1@dont-email.me>
> 
> Alan Peeling wrote:
>> I found the thread ¡How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB
>> servers to connect to each other & Windows?¢ on
>> https://newsgrouper.org/comp.mobile.android , thanks for the pointers.
> 
> To tie Andy's suggestion of
>> There's a new one <https://usenet.id>
> 
> Let's pop this message-id into Andy's suggested link...
>   Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.comp.os.windows-10
>   Subject: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers to connect to each other & Windows?
>   Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 06:12:44 -0000 (UTC)
>   Message-ID: <vtnhos$1jn3$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
> 
> It worked.
>   <https://usenet.id/vtnhos$1jn3$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
> 
> The problem with the message-id approach, at least that one, is that it
> doesn't give the rest of the thread. It only gives us the opening post.
> 
> Let's compare with  <http://al.howardknight.net/>
>   Drat. "HTTP Error 503.0 - Service Temporarily Unavailable"
> 
> Let's compare then with <https://newsgrouper.org/>
>   [continue as guest]
>   [continue]
>   
> Drat. It doesn't show the whole thread either.
>   <https://newsgrouper.org/%3Cvtnhos$1jn3$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com%3Ev>
>   <https://newsgrouper.org/%3Cvtnhos$1jn3$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com%3Emv>
> 
> Let's see if we can find the thread using any of these links:
>   <https://tinyurl.com/pug-comp-mobile-android>
>   <https://i2pn2.pugleaf.net/groups/comp.mobile.android>
>   <https://newsgrouper.org/comp.mobile.android>
>   <https://comp.mobile.android.narkive.com/>
>   <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.mobile.android
>   <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android>
>   <https://www.novabbs.com/tech/thread.php?group=comp.mobile.android>
> 
> Starting with  <https://tinyurl.com/pug-comp-mobile-android>
> which translates to <https://i2pn2.pugleaf.net/groups/comp.mobile.android>
> Drat. "can't reach this page"
> 
> Let's try  <https://newsgrouper.org/comp.mobile.android> by searching for
>   " How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers "
> Bingo! This gives us the entire thread.
>   <https://newsgrouper.org/comp.mobile.android/search/1755829405>
> 
> Now let's try <https://comp.mobile.android.narkive.com/>
> Drat. "503 Service Unavailable"
> 
> <https://www.novabbs.com/tech/thread.php?group=comp.mobile.android>
> Results in "404 Page not found."
> 
> And, of course, Google groups search died before that thread authored.
>   <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android>
> Whose last post is 2/22/24
> 
> Unless there's some other mechanism, that's all I know of.
> Anyone know more than what is in the test I just ran above today?
> 
> Please let the rest of us know so we all benefit from your knowledge.

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