old posts?

[forrest_m]

maybe i'm just way behind the times here, but i was searching for an old thread (nov '02) and could not find anything older than about mid-'03. are the old threads gone? not really important, just trying to satisfy some curiosity on a slow afternoon...

[sobo]

You have been having better luck than I with the search function, then. I only seem to get hits for threads that have been started since the most recent upgrade. No returns for threads older than a coupla months or so.

[Dave_Schuldt]

Ask Dru.

[Dru]

I ate them

[OnTop_of_Poo]

I ate them

 

Did you use a filter? Was it GOOOD?

[forrest_m]

i wasn't having any luck (i thought because the thread must have had a non-obvious title or something), so since it was a thread that i had posted to, (which eliminates 99.9% of all posts on the board) i used the "view all user posts" from the users list (on my own userid); since i knew the approximate date (early november 2002 ), i figured it would be easy enough to scroll through all my posts for that month (easy for me, maybe not so easy for a high-output poster like dru), but it only gave a total of 200 responses, extending back only about a year.

 

i seem to recall something about the old archives being down because of the upgrade but they will slowly come back? anyone know if that's true?

[olyclimber]

You might try to use the "older than" rather than the "newer than". The search tool only seems to have the ability to return 200 results. I just tried it, and got posts going back to '01.

[Dru]

Just search the site using Google instead of the cc.com search tool.

[chris]

I've had the same problem as Forrest, but solved it like Dru...