Hi Richard

I had the same problem finding old postings that were of interest to me, 
and found my solution in about 2004. And I applied it to Oldtools and 
many other newsgroups that I was following.

No it won't immediately help newcomers to the group (that will have to 
rely on searches of prior material in the manner as already described).

In 2004 I started saving interesting messages that I wanted to keep in 
text files by subject matter. Text files have the advantage of being 
small in memory requirements as opposed to bloated files from word 
processors. I use NoteTab Free from Fookes Software for this record 
keeping as well as to codeHTML for websites.

https://www.fookes.com

NoteTab has the added advantage of also being able to search over 
multiple text files -- if I wasn't sure which exact files might contain 
a particular prior discussion.

So this solution won't help new record keepers immediately, but will 
prove absolutely invaluable over the future years.

Steve B. in Thunder Bay, Ontario

--- where winter is ending about two months late and I haven't yet 
removed the big snowblower from my tractor.