David Hansen wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:05:10 -0700 someone who may be Boltar
wrote this:-

Well excuse me for not trawling back through a few hundred thousand
posts from the 90s.

I'm sure a search engine would reduce the number of postings to look
through, by a large number.

Surely that's the point of the Google Groups archive. It takes seconds to
pull up postings from the past.