program to download archived google groups posts by author

I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a particular
author on google groups and ave them in one txt file hopefully without any
replies, is such a prog availble?

any help will be greatly appreciated

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:55:44 GMT, "Nospam" <nospam@home.com> wrote:

>I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a particular
>author on google groups and ave them in one txt file hopefully without any
>replies, is such a prog availble?
>
>any help will be greatly appreciated
>
>
>
Have you the authors permission to do that ?

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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 0911 -0500, Paul N Burke <lamewolf2004@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:55:44 GMT, "Nospam" <nospam@home.com> wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a particular
>> author on google groups and ave them in one txt file hopefully without any
>> replies, is such a prog availble?
>>
>> any help will be greatly appreciated
>>
>>
>>
> Have you the authors permission to do that ?
>

Besides this being off-topic: Does Google have the authors permission?

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"Barbara de Zoete" <b_de_zoete@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 0911 -0500, Paul N Burke
> <lamewolf2004@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:55:44 GMT, "Nospam" <nospam@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a
>>> particular author on google groups and ave them in one txt file
>>> hopefully without any replies, is such a prog availble?
>>>
>>> any help will be greatly appreciated
>>>
>> Have you the authors permission to do that ?
>
> Besides this being off-topic: Does Google have the authors permission?

Did the author understand Usenet before he/she started to use it?

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On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:04:11 GMT, Leif K-Brooks <eurleif@ecritters.biz> wrote:

> Barbara de Zoete wrote:
>> Besides this being off-topic: Does Google have the authors permission
>> [to archive their Usenet messages]?
>
> Implicit permission, yes.

To archive, although I'm never to fond of 'opt-out'. To archive. Not to reuse in
some goofey interface such as Google Groups, as if it was the next great Google
invention.

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"Barbara de Zoete" <b_de_zoete@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:04:11 GMT, Leif K-Brooks
> <eurleif@ecritters.biz> wrote:
>
>> Barbara de Zoete wrote:
>>> Besides this being off-topic: Does Google have the authors
>>> permission [to archive their Usenet messages]?
>>
>> Implicit permission, yes.
>
> To archive, although I'm never to fond of 'opt-out'. To archive. Not
> to reuse in some goofey interface such as Google Groups, as if it was
> the next great Google invention.

It isn't. It was deja news. And what's the point of an archive if you can't
access it? Moreover, are there restrictions on how one makes an interface
to an archive?

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Barbara de Zoete wrote:

> Does Google have the authors permission?
> [to archive posts]

Google creates a copy of your post on their server; so do thousands of
other servers. The other servers only keep their copies for a week or so;
Google keeps their copy for a lot longer.

Length of retention is the only difference between Google any other NNTP
servers; length of retention does not factor into copyright law AFAIK.

So if Google's copies are illegal, so are the copies on every other
server. (And that is quite possible!)

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