--- title: "Searching Borland and MS newsgroups even if your firewall won't let you use a newsreader." url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/19/searching-borland-and-ms-newsgroups-even-if-your-firewall-wo.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/19/searching-borland-and-ms-newsgroups-even-if-your-firewall-wo.html" published: "2004-03-19T23:43:00" updated: "2004-03-19T23:43:00" tags: [".Net Quotations"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Huh. Already found something useful at Falafel Blogs: If you're like me and working at a client site that does not allow access to news readers from behind their firewall, you should take a look at:…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Searching Borland and MS newsgroups even if your firewall won't let you use a newsreader. By Roy Osherove March 19, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations) **Historical article** · Originally published March 19, 2004; technical details may be outdated. Huh. Already found something useful at Falafel Blogs:

If you're like me and working at a client site that does not allow  access to news readers from behind their firewall, you should take a look at:

http://www.tamaracka.com

This a really cool site for searching through newsgroups. You limit your search to MS or Borland newsgroups and can filter to a specific newsgroup using the "^" character like s "^csharp localization" Be sure to look at the "Advanced search" links, my choice is to get the results organized by "Thread".

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