OT: Couple of google groups questions

[Dan Williams]

On 5/20/05, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Now that those of us in the UK are forced to use the new google groups
> interface to their archive...
> 
> 1) How do I see how active a group is or what groups exist in a
> particular hierarchy? (e.g. I used to be able to stick "comp.sys.sun"
> into the search field and it'd show me both that hierarchy and group
> activity, which was handy when deciding where to post)
> 

You can type comp.sys.sun* to see the lot.


> 2) Are full email addresses available to view by registered users? It
> used to handy being able to try and contact someone from x years ago who
> had knowledge of something I wanted details on. Now Google seem to be
> masking them all though...
> 
You can click on reply to author and it will send a message for you.

> I'll send these two to Google themselves of course, but as you US guys
> have been stuck with the new interface for months maybe you already have
> answers...
> 
> 3) Is anyone else archiving usenet or do Google have sole control?
> 
Don't know
> cheers
> 
> Jules
> 
> 


Dan