Date:         Wed, 26 Dec 2001 03:48:19 -0800
Reply-To:     TinkerMan <tinkerman007@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         TinkerMan <tinkerman007@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      # archive search problems and tips
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Hi Volks,

I've been enjoying the archives quite a bit using the
email search option (the web search was unbearably
slow or crashed completely).
Still, I have a few nagging problems that I haven't
solved yet, even after reading the server help file
(info refcard) thoroughly:

1. It seems that the server doesn't like LONG LINES.
Every time the line reaches a certain length (about 60
chars) the line is wrapped and the command rejected or
not fully executed due to the words being passed to
the next line. This happens usually for long commands,
e.g. "search in subject" or getpost commands.
Funnily, if I copy and paste the GETPOST command list
part from search results with many results, and even
though the original spanned several lines, the server
processes just the first line and ignores the rest.
Of course some of my problems might be related to my
email program (actually a web mail service) wrapping
long lines, but then the search results containg long
getpost command list shows that it's not the culprit.
What I do to solve the problem is split the GETPOST
command to many smaller ones, but this is time
consuming and breaks the thread.
Maybe there is some character to be but at the end of
the line, to tell the server to concatenate the lines
(similar to what is done in several programming
languages)?

2. After some head scratching, I've found how to do
the search only in the subject line (gives much better
relevant results). Still, the syntax is very limiting
and due to the line length limiting mentioned above is
almost useless (because most of the line is used up by
the syntax (syntax capitalized):

SEARCH heater IN VANAGON WHERE SUBJECT CONTAINS vented

The syntax requires at least one parameter in the
message and one in the subject, so I can search for
max 1 word in the subject line.
Any better ideas?

**if possible, please send me a copy via p-mail too
since I often miss responses on this very active list.


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Cheers,
         TinkerMan

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