"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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