Thanks for the update.

David McRitchie wrote:

Google has it's own access to newsgroup through web pages,
and in order to do that they had to provide immediate access
to newsgroup messages and to index them quickly.

There is NO LONGER a DELAY, you can search and find
an article almost as soon as they are posted.

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message ...
if you're looking for old posts:

you can use google (maybe a few hours behind) to search for stuff you've
posted (and find the replies, too)

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
http://groups.google.com/advanced_gr...Excel*&num=100

Ron de Bruin has an excel addin that you may like:
http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm

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Dave Peterson