Is there a good way to browse through the newsgroups - I'm primarily thinking
about:

A way to sift through ALL of the images posted - back to the very beginning,

Listing all the attachments ever uploaded (scene files, macros, etc.)

and related to that, a good way to "jump" to a specific date or topic when
something is discussed in a non-attachment thread and the files are them posted
over in another attachment-enabled thread?

And, on that note - I've often wondered just how much storage space does
news.povray.org take up???   :O

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> Is there a good way to browse through the newsgroups - I'm primarily thinking
> about:
>
> A way to sift through ALL of the images posted - back to the very beginning,

A good start might be this:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:news.povray.org&tbm=isch

Under Search Tools you can set the date range.

> Listing all the attachments ever uploaded (scene files, macros, etc.)
>
> and related to that, a good way to "jump" to a specific date or topic when
> something is discussed in a non-attachment thread and the files are them posted
> over in another attachment-enabled thread?

How good are you at writing scripts/code? The NNTP protocol isn't that 
complicated... :-)

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Is there a good way to browse through the newsgroups - I'm primarily thinking
> about:
>
> A way to sift through ALL of the images posted - back to the very beginning,
>
> Listing all the attachments ever uploaded (scene files, macros, etc.)
>
> and related to that, a good way to "jump" to a specific date or topic when
> something is discussed in a non-attachment thread and the files are them posted
> over in another attachment-enabled thread?
>
> And, on that note - I've often wondered just how much storage space does
> news.povray.org take up???   :O

I like to use Thunderbird to search the groups.

If you want to actually pick through and display only the images, what you need
is a crawler, and depending on how the website has it's permissions set up (esp.
w/r/t robots) this could be problematic.

OTOH... You could just try google.

search for all results from news.povray.org like so:

Search term: "site:news.povray.org"

then click the images link.

Regards,
A.D.B.

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"Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> > Is there a good way to browse through the newsgroups - I'm primarily thinking
> > about:
> >
> > A way to sift through ALL of the images posted - back to the very beginning,
> >
> > Listing all the attachments ever uploaded (scene files, macros, etc.)
> >
> > and related to that, a good way to "jump" to a specific date or topic when
> > something is discussed in a non-attachment thread and the files are them posted
> > over in another attachment-enabled thread?
> >
> > And, on that note - I've often wondered just how much storage space does
> > news.povray.org take up???   :O
>
> I like to use Thunderbird to search the groups.
>
> If you want to actually pick through and display only the images, what you need
> is a crawler, and depending on how the website has it's permissions set up (esp.
> w/r/t robots) this could be problematic.
>
> OTOH... You could just try google.
>
> search for all results from news.povray.org like so:
>
> Search term: "site:news.povray.org"
>
> then click the images link.
>
> Regards,
> A.D.B.

Further experimentation has shown that you can't use the Time limiter on the
search engine, but you can search by year:

Search term: "1999 site:news.povray.org"

--> images

Or you can limit it to a given month:

"Mar 2001 site:news.povray.org"

Happy hunting.

A.D.B.

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I see.

I was curious if there was maybe just a simple to adapt/expand the results
returned by:

http://news.povray.org/digest/images/

So that you could just keep scrolling backward.....


I'll look into the Google search parameters - I know they exist, I just haven't
learned how to use them yet - out of sheer abject laziness and preoccupation
with other things.   :)

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On 27/11/14 03:35, Bald Eagle wrote:
> 
> I'll look into the Google search parameters - I know they exist, I just haven't
> learned how to use them yet - out of sheer abject laziness and preoccupation
> with other things.   :)
> 

In other words, you haven't got a Round Tuit :-)
I'm sure someone on these froups can sell you one at a bargain price;
unfortunately, I'm all out of spare ones.

John
-- 
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children

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On 27/11/2014 10:44, Doctor John wrote:
> On 27/11/14 03:35, Bald Eagle wrote:
>>
>> I'll look into the Google search parameters - I know they exist, I just haven't
>> learned how to use them yet - out of sheer abject laziness and preoccupation
>> with other things.   :)
>>
>
> In other words, you haven't got a Round Tuit :-)
> I'm sure someone on these froups can sell you one at a bargain price;
> unfortunately, I'm all out of spare ones.
>

Saving then up for the Christmas rush?


-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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On 27/11/14 11:06, Stephen wrote:
> 
> Saving then up for the Christmas rush?
> 
> 

Nope. I sold a warehouse-full of them to a white-bearded bloke in a red
fur-lined suit; delivery address was North Pole. Strangely, he also
requested a huge quantity of reindeer food.

John
-- 
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children

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On 27/11/2014 12:04, Doctor John wrote:
> On 27/11/14 11:06, Stephen wrote:
>>
>> Saving then up for the Christmas rush?
>>
>>
>
> Nope. I sold a warehouse-full of them to a white-bearded bloke in a red
> fur-lined suit;

That's the spirit! Making dosh of the back of wee kids dreams.
Go for it!

; delivery address was North Pole. Strangely, he also
> requested a huge quantity of reindeer food.
>

Nope. Any clues? ;-)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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On 27-11-2014 11:44, Doctor John wrote:
> On 27/11/14 03:35, Bald Eagle wrote:
>>
>> I'll look into the Google search parameters - I know they exist, I just haven't
>> learned how to use them yet - out of sheer abject laziness and preoccupation
>> with other things.   :)
>>
>
> In other words, you haven't got a Round Tuit :-)
> I'm sure someone on these froups can sell you one at a bargain price;
> unfortunately, I'm all out of spare ones.
>
> John
>
I have put my last of Vintage 2014 on E-Bay.

Thomas

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