PSA:
How to find an article in web-searchable no-registration Usenet archives
From another thread on comp.mobile.android today...
From: Alan Peeling <Alan@invalid.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Can›t Set File Permissions
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 12:46:19 +0100
Message-ID: <1103lmc$2fu0p$1@dont-email.me>
Alan Peeling wrote:
I found the thread How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB
servers to connect to each other & Windows?› on
https://newsgrouper.org/comp.mobile.android , thanks for the pointers.
To tie Andy's suggestion of
There's a new one <https://usenet.id>
Let's pop this message-id into Andy's suggested link...
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject: How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers to connect to each other & Windows?
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 06:12:44 -0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <vtnhos$1jn3$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
It worked.
<https://usenet.id/vtnhos$1jn3$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
The problem with the message-id approach, at least that one, is that it doesn't give the rest of the thread. It only gives us the opening post.
Let's compare with <http://al.howardknight.net/>
Drat. "HTTP Error 503.0 - Service Temporarily Unavailable"
Let's compare then with <https://newsgrouper.org/>
[continue as guest]
[continue]
Drat. It doesn't show the whole thread either.
<https://newsgrouper.org/%3Cvtnhos$1jn3$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com%3Ev>
<https://newsgrouper.org/%3Cvtnhos$1jn3$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com%3Emv>
Let's see if we can find the thread using any of these links:
<https://tinyurl.com/pug-comp-mobile-android>
<https://i2pn2.pugleaf.net/groups/comp.mobile.android>
<https://newsgrouper.org/comp.mobile.android>
<https://comp.mobile.android.narkive.com/>
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.mobile.android
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android>
<https://www.novabbs.com/tech/thread.php?group=comp.mobile.android>
Starting with <https://tinyurl.com/pug-comp-mobile-android>
which translates to <https://i2pn2.pugleaf.net/groups/comp.mobile.android> Drat. "can't reach this page"
Let's try <https://newsgrouper.org/comp.mobile.android> by searching for
" How do nonroot Android & nonjailbroken iOS run SMB servers "
Bingo! This gives us the entire thread.
<https://newsgrouper.org/comp.mobile.android/search/1755829405>
Now let's try <https://comp.mobile.android.narkive.com/>
Drat. "503 Service Unavailable"
<https://www.novabbs.com/tech/thread.php?group=comp.mobile.android>
Results in "404 Page not found."
And, of course, Google groups search died before that thread authored.
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android>
Whose last post is 2/22/24
Unless there's some other mechanism, that's all I know of.
Anyone know more than what is in the test I just ran above today?
Please let the rest of us know so we all benefit from your knowledge.
Let's compare with <http://al.howardknight.net/>
Drat. "HTTP Error 503.0 - Service Temporarily Unavailable"
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