Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:54:55 -0800
Reply-To: Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
Subject: Re: Problems searching the archive
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It helps to use shorter periods.... one, two or three months at a time...
AND narrow search criteria (there's somewhat of an art to this... a simple
example would be if you're looking for information on springs to search for
springs instead of suspension; another would be to search for viscous
instead of coupling or viscous coupling or Syncro... try to pick the one
work that could only apply to what you are looking for... you get the idea)
AND perhaps most important... if the search is slow and you are timing
out.... try searching at hours of the day that are not so popular... i.e.:
not at 5, 6 or 7 P.M.... search late or search early.
Good Luck
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Taylor <hetchins@MONTANA.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:24 PM
Subject: Problems searching the archive
>>Why don't volks use the archives. Is accessing them that difficult? If it
>is
>>we need to address this problem.
>
>I haven't had much luck with searching the archive, and it's very
>frustrating, because I know that everything I need to know has been
>discussed on the list. I just can't get to it.
>
>When I use the "search" function on the archive page, most of my searches
>time out with no result being returned. Sometimes it works, like when I
>searched for some of my own old messages. How embarassing. I usually limit
>my search to a one year or six month period, for instance, but they still
>time out. Is there some way for me or the archive manager to make the
search
>time go longer, without timing out so soon?
>
>I've used the "search" and "getpost" commands to the listserver with mixed
>success as well. One search, I got the search listing and then submitted
the
>item numbers, but the messages I received were totally different from the
>ones in the initial search listing.
>
>I just now did a "search" and "getpost" for information about stuck
>accelerator cables (thanks to Tom Neal, who knows how to spell vangon) and
>had perfect results.
>
>So it goes.
>
>Dick Taylor
>hetchins@montana.com
>
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