Saved google threads are full of bugs and thus useless

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beginner16

Hello

I apologize if this is not the right place to ask these sort of
questions , but I'd really need some help

I've made quite a few threads on Google groups over the last two
years, so naturally I'd like to save them to my PC, but everytime I
save a page and then try to open it, the displayed page is full of
bugs, that basically make the saved page useless.
So, is there a way to save google threads without these bugs that make
a page unreadable?


thank you
 
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beginner16

hello

The thing is, there are quite a few threads with 20 + replies and
which are also very heavily quoted, and thus with these large threads
the "show quoted text/hide queoted text" options become a must, and
page-to-pdf doesn't include this option! If there is such an option,
that would be great?!
 
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beginner16

I want to have them on my computer for a number of reasons. Call me
paranoid, but what if threads are somehow lost by google ( for
whatever reason; perhaps google decides to close down google groups or
whatever ) and I also want to be able to read them off line, since I
may not always have access to the internet.

So you guys don't have any bugs show up when saving it?
 
A

Andreas Leitgeb

Peter Duniho said:
I am tempted to write my own. I had been considering writing a Mac news
reader, but I don't want to go to all that effort only to find in a year
or two that I give up on the Mac and I can no longer use the Mac-only news
reader I put all that effort into.

Huh? You'd surely also write it in Java, wouldn't you? ;-)
So, assuming you succeed in completing one, you'd be able to
continue using it even in case you change your platform ...
 
R

RedGrittyBrick

beginner16 said:
I want to have them on my computer for a number of reasons. Call me
paranoid, but what if threads are somehow lost by google ( for
whatever reason; perhaps google decides to close down google groups or
whatever ) and I also want to be able to read them off line, since I
may not always have access to the internet.

I believe Thunderbird and other newsreaders have facilities for off-line
reading.

When I want to save one newsgroup message I use Thunderbird's View
Message-Source (Ctrl+U) and cut & paste.

When I want to save a whole bunch of newsgroup messages I've used Perl's
Net::NNTP module.

So you guys don't have any bugs show up when saving it?

I'm not sure what you mean by bugs in this context. But no.
 
G

gerfund

Consider using a usenet client.




I don't save it.


Agreed. Get a usenet client/newsreader, and just manually download all
your messages you posted from the newsgroups.



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Nigel Wade

RedGrittyBrick said:
I believe Thunderbird and other newsreaders have facilities for off-line
reading.

When I want to save one newsgroup message I use Thunderbird's View
Message-Source (Ctrl+U) and cut & paste.

When I want to save a whole bunch of newsgroup messages I've used Perl's
Net::NNTP module.

With Thunderbird you can create a local folder (or any number of local folders)
then copy single messages, or entire threads, into that local folder. Once in
the local folder you can organize them however you want.
I'm not sure what you mean by bugs in this context. But no.

I am guessing that all the links which Google inserts into the messages to
expand long messages, and various other things, are broken. But since I very
rarely use Google Groups, and have never tried to save a message, I can only
guess.
 
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Nigel Wade

Lew said:
Google Groups is a piss-poor, pathetic, very useless interface to Usenet. I
know Google thinks of themselves as some sorts of gods of the Internet, but GG
sure provides no evidence for that - it just makes Google look like a bunch of
pathetic losers.

The archive is a very useful resource. A Usenet archive used to be maintained by
Deja News. That archive became untenable due to (IMHO) the misdirection of the
management, and the entire Usenet archive was going to disappear off the web.
At that time Google stepped in and took it over. This was a Good Thing.
However, I agree that the interface leaves a lot to be desired.
 
W

Wojtek

Agreed. Get a usenet client/newsreader, and just manually download all
your messages you posted from the newsgroups.

I am using MesNews, which was designed as an offline reader. It
automatically saves the headers and bodies.

It is also portable and can be run off a USB stick.
 
M

Martin Gregorie

The archive is a very useful resource. A Usenet archive used to be
maintained by Deja News. That archive became untenable due to (IMHO) the
misdirection of the management, and the entire Usenet archive was going
to disappear off the web. At that time Google stepped in and took it
over. This was a Good Thing. However, I agree that the interface leaves
a lot to be desired.
IMO the old Deja News interface was much better than Google's current one.
 

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