Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:53:24 -0500
Reply-To: Tim Ness <tim.ness@WCOM.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Tim Ness <tim.ness@WCOM.COM>
Subject: Archive searches via Email
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There's been some discussion on the slowness of Archive searching
on Gerry. I'm assuming folks are disappointed with the WEB based
searching. Searching from an Email request is fairly quick. Here is
the section on searches from the INFO REFCARD command.
Just remember to send these commands to LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
not the general mail list.
SEArch listname word1 <word2 <...>> Search list archives
or: word1 <word2 <...>> IN listname
FROM date1 -> From this date
TODAY -> From today
TODAY-7 -> In the last 7 days
TO date2 -> To this date
WHERE
SUBJECT CONTAINS xxxx -> Only this subject
AND/OR
SENDER CONTAINS xxxx -> Only this author
Complex boolean operations
are
supported, see database guide
I sent a SEArch archive in VANAGON command and received the following
response back in 10 minutes. If you are more specific it runs faster.
****************************************************************************
**********
> SEArch archive in VANAGON
-> 4859 matches (only the first 100 will be shown).
Item # Date Time Recs Subject
------ ---- ---- ---- -------
000007 94/04/02 18:38 58 Subscription announcement
000020 94/04/03 22:23 21 Reply-to field
000021 94/04/03 23:48 20 ARCHIVE, Back issues, etc.
000049 94/04/04 21:31 32 Re: getting archive files from vanagon mail
list
000068 94/04/05 12:22 39 Re: Owner's manual
000072 94/04/05 15:27 49 Re: getting archive files from vanagon mail
list
000296 94/04/14 09:55 17 Archive Search
000297 94/04/14 13:36 21 Apology
000298 94/04/14 13:36 21 Apology
000358 94/04/17 17:29 24 tech sheets on a web server
000359 94/04/17 21:54 37 Re: tech sheets on a web server
000370 94/04/18 08:27 24 Re: tech sheets on a web server
000614 94/05/08 15:19 30 April archives available via ftp
000884 94/06/07 14:59 23 population explosion and archive announce
001417 94/07/19 18:07 62 Howdy from a neophyte!
<Snip>
It follows up with this info and a few lines from the post.
To order a copy of these postings, send the following command:
GETPOST vanagon 7 20-21 49 68 72 296-298 358-359 370 614 884 1417 2308 2329
2335 2362 2571 2579 2920 3299 3310 3319 4127 4172 4589 4780 4786 4842 4980
5030 5110 5208 5422 5424 5449 5469 5472 5501 5518 5851 5908 5912 6138 6153
6159 6280 6383 6389 6516 6525 6723 6731 6806 7260 7269 7279 7394 7430 7558
7996 8077 8141 8288 8472 8784 8836 8899 8991 9352 9552 10027 10039 10065
10068 10101 10104 10106 10141 10160 10181 10189 10266 10276 10841 10843
10901 11144 11149 11182 11204 11273 11436 11607 11697 11738 11815 11836
>>> Item #7 (2 Apr 1994 18:38) - Subscription announcement
use the other one becuase you did at some other site, it'll still work.
I'll get the archives on gopher and FTP as soon as I can.
^^^^^^^
>>> Item #20 (3 Apr 1994 22:23) - Reply-to field
whole list. After all, I'm sure that there's more than one person interested
in the question. If not, at least my message will be archived so that when
^^^^^^^
someone else comes along, they'll be able to access it.
>>> Item #21 (3 Apr 1994 23:48) - ARCHIVE, Back issues, etc.
From: derekdrew@aol.com
Subject: ARCHIVE, Back issues, etc.
^^^^^^^
<SNIP>
Tim Ness
Raleigh, NC
87 Westy "Chunky Girl"
