searching the list archives

[grladams at teleport.com]

there's options. maybe boise state or wherever they are now, can dump them
into some kind of indexing system... or, if not, that means of course that
we have to start all over, repeat all the reads, and begin the archive this
time in an "organized" fashion. 

Original Message:
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From: Henry M scuffling at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:13:45 -0500
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: searching the list archives


Longevity on the list helps.  I have many years of messges archived.

AsB4,

Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>> I am wanting to search the list archives, and wonder if there is a way to
>> include several words  so that all the terms need to appear in any
comment
>> the search reveals?
>>
>> Any info on searching would be helpful.
>
> Only one word at a time, with no margin for error, and you're not
> necessarily guaranteed you're gonna find everything you should even if
> you KNOW the search term is in there somewhere, alas.  I've found more
> tha afew things simply by finding a relevant thread and tracing along
> it, or coming close to the date/time it was posted, and poking around,
> so ...
>
> Anything specific in mind?  Let me know.  Working my way back to IV, I
> owe y'all, but things keep going Wrong here, so ...
>

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