How to access daily horoscope archive for capricorn 11-29-02 on MSN
astrology channel. I've tried searching for msn,astrology, daily
horoscope, archive; and msn, horoscope, contact, help; with no luck.

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Request for Question Clarification by feilong-ga on 01 Dec 2002 19:51 PST

"I'm kicking myself for not copying it in the first place!"

If you've seen the page in your computer, there is a good chance that
a copy of the page is in your history folder, on condition that you
did not erase the contents. Please verify so I can guide you.

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Clarification of Question by meego-ga on 02 Dec 2002 15:33 PST

Feilong, I already thought of that. I have my history set at 0 days,
and I've run spybot, and deleted its recovery file since then. I'm
afraid I covered my tracks pretty well! I'm sure it is probably still
"in there" somewhere, as I didn't shred anything, or use history wipe,
but I don't know enough to dig any deeper. If you could walk me
through it, I'd consider it an answer; whether I found the file or
not. I'm always interested in learning "recovery", as that lets me
protect MY privacy!

Meego

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Clarification of Question by meego-ga on 02 Dec 2002 19:15 PST

I tried to find a way to contact msn, or send an email to their
astrology editor, no luck. I tried searching on how to contact, see
original question. Any other way to contact them?

Hi Meego,

This is a freaky coincidence, but I have found it for you. I'm doing a
study of online dating agencies, and I was just browsing
MatchMaker.com and they use Keen's horoscopes AND allow you to look at
horoscopes from previous days!

Horoscopes -- 29 November, 2002
Capricorn   (23 December - 20 January)
  
Your need to keep control of a situation has held to one beacon: by
never giving all of the information, you have retained control. This
will come under fire today. Someone will try to make you feel bad
about your way of doing things.
http://australia.matchmaker.com/horoscope?current_day=112902&now=1038549027


Search strategy: random fluke

Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga

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Clarification of Answer by robertskelton-ga on 02 Dec 2002 22:06 PST

Unfortunately you need to be a member to visit the URL I provided. The
process is free but a little longwinded.

MatchMaker.com - Free Trial
http://matchmaker.com/freetrial?click=question

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Request for Answer Clarification by meego-ga on 02 Dec 2002 23:36 PST

Just a note, I didn't need the link or the actual page, just what it
said. Thanks again!

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Clarification of Answer by robertskelton-ga on 03 Dec 2002 01:53 PST

Your welcome, and thanks for the tip/rating.

Halleluia! Hot dang! and thanks to the universe for random flukes and
researchers paying attention! Thanks so much, you made my week.

Here are some things I've tried and failed to find.

The wayback machine does not have this date (only a few days ago)
cached (it only has from last year).
Neither does Google's cache (Nov. 12, 2002).

I disected the javascript and the html of the page on the site
astrology.msn.com and did not find where you could enter a date (or
even 'trick it' what date it was by a value in a url request form.) It
seems to be included via asp and is just html when outputted for the
current day. It does not seem than msn stores the information but I
might be wrong.

Hopefully someone more resourceful than I can find this for you :)

Thanks for trying, arcadesdude! I'll keep hoping someone can find it.
I'm kicking myself for not copying it in the first place!

meego

My suggestion is to try to find out where MSN gets the horoscope from.
Perhaps the source has an archive.

Keen.com is the source of the horoscopes for MSN.  After poking around
on the Keen site I quickly became aware that all of the info there you
get by phone or by e-mail.  There is no archive of any sorts anywhere
on the site.  According to the 'What is Keen?' link:

Keen, Your Personal Advisor, is where you get live,
immediate advice for your everyday life. Need advice?
Information? Or simply someone friendly to talk to?
Keen helps you find the right person and then connects
you privately over the phone for a per-minute rate. 

I also tried looking online for any other site that might also use the
same horoscopes as MSN (which is quite commonly done online) but
couldn't find any other site out there with the same horoscope.

Sorry, but it looks like MSN farms its horoscopes out to Keen.com
only.  Heck, maybe you could pay one of their astrologers/advisors to
get the Capricorn horoscope for November 29???  That's the only thing
I can think of.

Take care,
SmoochyTX

Thanks Sparky. Smoochy, if I called a Keen psychic, and they didn't
have the answer, would I get my $ back? LOL

Meego

Actually anyone can be a keen expert so it is unlikely you will find
someone who has an answer for this question short of emailing keen.com

Basically if you want to become a psychic yourself you can be one
through keen.com and if you advertise yourself properly they will
route the calls to your phone (or email) while taking a percentage of
your earnings.

RE: Keen.com

It looks like MSN has partnered with Keen rto funnel people form MSN
to Keen for psychic advice. As far as I know, Keen doesn't actually
generate any content of it's own, merely providing a system for
conencting, billing, and paying, people who give advice on a variety
of sunjects over the phone.

I'm not convinced that Keen actually is the source of the MSN
horoscopes. Has anybody contacted MSN?

Here it is at Keen, as well as a link to tomorrow's. Fiddling with the
URL does not find previous ones.

http://astrology.keen.com/horoscopes/dailyscope.asp?sign=Capricorn

Not archived at Google or Wayback