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Kibo only grepped the newsgroups he subscribed to, and didn’t have a full UseNet pipe running all groups through grep (unless I misremember the history there).
by floatingatoll 6y ago
Kibo only grepped the newsgroups he subscribed to, and didn’t have a full UseNet pipe running all groups through grep (unless I misremember the history there).
The problem isn’t full-text search of a forum you’ve already signed up for.
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