is there a folder which contains what i previously asked before?
Unless somebody creates a web site of public forum posts, no, not
directly.
I use Google groups to review my past mistakes.
e.g. for you, a search field of
group:microsoft.public.mac.office.word author:
[email protected]
ig Google's advanced group search (with a few of my defaults)
gives the complete url
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http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=&num=10&scoring=d&hl=en&as_epq=&as
_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=microsoft.public.mac.office.word&as_usubject=&as_u
authors=nocookiemonster%40gmail.com&lr=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_m
inm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=22&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2006&safe=off>
and two threads of results.
Depending on your news client, you may mail yourself a copy of your
postings.
Again depending on your news client and news server's retention policy,
you may be able to get fairly recent postings via a search of any
groups you have posted to.
Here with Thoth, and my ISP's news server, I can see
6 posts from nocookiemonster, in three threads.
With Microsoft's own news server, such searches via Thoth do not appear
to work at all.
If you want to avoid leaving a trail, One of the options you have is to
set a "No archive" attribute one each post, which Google and most
reputable search engines respect. But do remember, you are posting on a
public forum, so anything you post may be remembered by anybody
anywhere.