History Forum / General / Archaeology / December 2006

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A familiarity with how to use Internet search engines is
assumed, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and the plethora of
others. The public usenet archives date from May of 1981,
with over one billion archived articles recorded to date.

Knowing how to effectively search through these archived
articles can be a valuable tool, since the vast majority
of these records are unique to the usenet, and cannot be
found anywhere else on the Internet, since websites come
and go, but usenet's archives will survive for posterity...

Although U.S. Federal Government intelligence & security
agencies maintain the most complete usenet archives, and
probably save every byte of data that travels across the
Internet, at this writing, Google Groups is the only way
for the public to search through this archived labyrinth:

       http://groups.google.com/advanced_search

Since this article is linked on my updated website, I'll
confine this lesson to articles with my own name on them,
realizing that the same principles can be applied to any
search of your choosing. I'll get right down to business.

I began posting to popular unmoderated usenet newsgroups
in January of 1998. To date, a raw, unfiltered search of
Google Groups returns about 27,000 hits for all archived
articles containing my real full name, Daniel Joseph Min:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=%22Daniel+Joseph+Min%22&start=0&scoring
=d&lr=&safe=off&num=100&

Simply adding my pgp sig lines plus several of the usual
red flags to the filter, winnows out most of the "chaff",
left-wing stalkers, trolls, sock puppets, etc., refining
the search down to about 13,000 unique articles, like so:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=begin-pgp-signed-message+end-pgp-signat
ure+%22Daniel+Joseph+Min%22+-danny-min+-danny-jo+-collected-buffoonery+-asshole&
start=0&scoring=d&lr=&safe=on&num=100&

The above link only returns articles dated after Jun 13,
2001, since that's when I began to PGP clearsign all of
my articles. Prior to that, during the interval between
March 14, 2000 up to June 13, 2001, I usually signed my
articles with Daniel Joseph Min or Daniel J Min, to wit:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=(daniel-joseph-min+OR+daniel-j-min+OR+d
aniel-min)&start=0&scoring=d&lr=&safe=on&num=100&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&a
s_miny=1981&as_maxd=13&as_maxm=6&as_maxy=2001&

Also, many of my earliest articles I signed as "Daniel",
but because I posted predominantly to the "Nostradamus"
newsgroup and the "Cayce" group, that narrows down the
field tremendously, since Daniel is such a common name,
and fortunately for me, there weren't too many Daniels
posting to the alt.prophecies.* newsgroup hierarchy or
discussions of the prophet Daniel, etc., in those days:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=%22Daniel%22+group%3Aalt.prophecies.*&s
tart=0&scoring=d&lr=&safe=on&num=100&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&
as_maxd=13&as_maxm=6&as_maxy=2001&

But that still returns about 11,000 hits, which I know
is way more than I personally wrote & posted back then.
Occasionally, I signed my oldest articles "anonymous",
or as "Daniel Min", but I was using the "X-No-Archive:
Yes" directive in most of my articles thus they do not
appear on the "Google Groups" archive searches, except
for where all or part of these appear quoted in others'
replies, etc.  And that's just as well, since my early
articles basically reflect the younger & inexperienced
me testing the waters and developing my writing skills,
what I'd call usenet bootcamp, in training for warfare.

Just remember that by searching for keywords & phrases,
or any combination thereof, the Google Groups archives
contain a wealth of information. The rest is up to you.

Happy New Year!
Daniel Joseph Min
http://www.2hot2cool.com/11/danieljosephmin/