Try Google groups' archive? at this link:
http://groups-
beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.func
tions/about
(link above should be all in 1 line, you'd need to restore)

If the above doesn't work, click on this:
http://tinyurl.com/4tzjr
(bring you to the same place)

The link will bring you to this ng's "About .." sheet=20
in google group where you can select / click to your=20
heart's delight on the archive=20
(nicely arranged all the way back to Nov 1998):
Example: Sep 2004 alone has 6198 posts for this ng !!

Happy reading !!
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Max
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sythong wrote in=20
message
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How do I look up earlier postings.
Cuurently I can find that there are 209 pages
starting from month of September 2004. I would
like very much to read the postings which are
before Sept 2004

Is there anyway or site that I can refer to for earlier
postings.
Appreciate any assistance.