On Aug 4, 2:26*pm, Mark Lipton > wrote:
> DaleW wrote:
> > It's a slight pain to have to add the alt.food.wine and do full groups
> > search, but at least the archives are still there.
>
> On the basis of my own experience only, though, they don't seem to be
> close to complete in their present state. *I've Googled for old posts of
> mine only to come up totally blank. *One time, Google was unable to turn
> up a *single* post of mine to afw using the search feature. *As I said,
> not good.
>
> Mark Lipton
>
> --
> alt.food.wine FAQ: *http://winefaq.cwdjr.net

If I ignore group search and just search all groups but include
alt.food.wine in string, I haven't found missing posts. I searched
about a dozen offlines I attended (by searching restaurant name and
one wine I knew there), and found them all. Searching "german
tourists" found my argument with Andros, I easily found various
trolls, etc. Seems pretty complete for last decade. I know there were
some holes in the Dejanews archives that Google started with before
that.