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Newsgroups: alt.binaries.multimedia.vintage-film
Subject: Re: ATTN: FRED -that's the second time you've fixed things for me.
From: "fred-bloggs" <fred-bloggs@hahahotmail.com>
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Date: 14 Oct 2014 12:26:56 GMT
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:30:52 GMT, Nat <nat@hotmail.com> wrote
> "fred-bloggs" <fred-bloggs@hahahotmail.com> wrote in
> news:543ab489$0$22092$c3e8da3$f6d5ad96@news.astraweb.com:
>
>> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:24:30 GMT, Nat <nat@hotmail.com> wrote
>>
>>> Fred
>>> You're making me feel stupid--in a good way. I've now got it.
>>> binsearch is too literal. When I get no hits, I should put an
>>> asterisk after every word. Lesson learned.
>>> Nat
>>
>> Binsearch only searches back 1300 days and so would not find a post
>> at 2145 days.
>>
>>
>
> Ah. rooky mistake. I have abandoned binsearch for nzb search which
> seems to find everything ever posted. Is there a better search engine
> than that?
>
Binsearch and nzbsearch are pretty good but neither goes beyond 1300 days.
nzbking goes back the full 2200 days but is tricky (you need to remember
it searches titles AND nfos).
--
fred
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