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PS It's also very helpful

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PS It's also very helpful to learn how to search for
archived news articles on the "google" search engine.
The following text is a facsmile of this web page on:

http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search

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Google Groups Help | All About Google
Groups Advanced Groups Search

with all of the words |_______________| |10 messages|
Find
messages with the exact phrase |_______________| |Sort by relevance|

with at least one of the words |_________|

without the words |_______________|


Newsgroup Return only messages from the newsgroup |_______________|
(Example: ...)
Subject Return only messages where the subject contains |________|

Author Return only messages where the author is |_______________|

Message ID Find the message with message ID |_______________|
(Example: ...)

Language Return messages written in |any language |v|

Message { } Return messages posted: |anytime|

{x} Return messages posted between |12|May|1981| and |1|Jan|2005|

SafeSearch { } No filtering {x} Filter using SafeSearch

(c) 2003 Google
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First, "Filter using SafeSearch" is always activated.
This instantly filters out 99% of all troll messages
since most of them always use inappropriate language.
By using combinations of these search parameters, it
doesn't take much to narrow down your search results
while filtering out unwanted "troll" messages in any
message thread. For example, my own posts are always
signed by me using PGP, and I always post to certain
newsgroups like alt.astrology. By using "without the
words" judiciously e.g. common troll-insults and the
like, I can quickly winnow out the chaff, and return
only messages that I myself have posted. Since every
experienced author tends to use certain phrases that
others seldom if ever use, like names and signatures,
and you search only your usual newsgroup(s), you can
then add keywords to isolate only those messages you
are looking for, regardless of what names you posted
under in the "from" field. Since remailer servers go
down from time to time, and many of them use various
aliases which the user can't customize, and I've had
many trolls who simply copied my name and email addy
and routinely trolled my articles, I discovered that
only by using PGP to clearsign every one of my posts
was I able to emphatically identify and authenticate
my autograph manuscripts--and thwart any attempts at
counterfeiting or forging my signature. That's why I
recommend always using PGP, just like every remailer
operator says you should always use PGP to sign your
posts, thereby assuring your readers that it's yours
and not some bogus forgery. Since trolls misquote or
fabricate "quotes" and wrongly attribute them to any-
one whose character they're trying to assassinate it
behooves the serious author to PGP-sign all articles.
Otherwise, anyone can "quote" you without verifiable
sources. PGP protects your reputation against attack
and readily exposes unscrupulous attackers as trolls.
Thus every one of my posts is always PGP-clearsigned,
that way I retain credit for everything I've written,
and I cannot be credited for anything I didn't write.

You can search the google news archives for anything
about any subject and usually find it with thousands
of active discussion groups online. I've often found
obscure information on these newsgroup archives that
don't otherwise appear on the usual website searches,
since news articles are more often based on personal
experience which is commonly more specific than most
websites are likely to be in detailing an experience,
and showing replies from others of similar expertise
in the matter. E.g. you can search the web for pages
of "judicial astrology" and get thousands of hits on
the subject few if any of which are genuinely useful,
since it is an extraordinarily obscure subject which
only a select few people in the world understand, or
have practical experience with. But search it on the
newsgroups, and you're more apt to find helpful data
on the subject. I know this since that's in my field
of expertise. The point is whatever you're searching
for on the web, try searching newsgroups for it also.
Odds are, you'll find more useful data on newsgroups,
especially if what you are searching for is uncommon.

That's all for now,
Daniel Joseph Min


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