Can you find "Schwarzkommando" in the archives? (was: RE: Partly P: Diacritical signs)

[David Morris]

The P-list search engine is next to useless.  Any search turns up
hundreds of items that must be searched manually to find what you're
looking for.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>> Well, some things you can find there, some not. Listen to my true story:
>> For quite some time I'm trying to find p-mails that deal with GR's
>> "Schwarzkommando" (the Herero's afro-diasporic military unit). Since I've
>> written myself about it one/three/couple times and also remember that I
>> used the word "Schwarzkommando" not only in the subject line, there must
>> be something in the archives. However, again and again (just checked this
>> out two minutes ago) the search-function tells me: "0 matches were found".
>> Why is that? Anyway, if somebody out there has the (more or less) collected
>> list-contributions to this theme, it would be nice if you could make a list
>> of the dates they were posted. Would enable even me to find them.
>
> I've had similar experiences with other, presumably obvious search
> terms.  I'll see what I can do ...
>