LSTOWN-L, the list whose archives I search the most, is only offering
version 1.8c-style searching, at least on the machine that I
understand we *ought* to be doing our searching.

So now I politely echo the question first raised by James J Drzymala --
is there a way (planned, perhaps) to do archive searches by mail and
get the sender's name in the list of hits?  (See below for more context.)

En paz,
Steve


Eric Thomas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> LSTSRV-L and LSTOWN-L  now each have a peer  at PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM. You
> can now  access the archives over  the WWW and make  interactive database
> searches using the URLs:
>
> http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/lstsrv-l.html
> http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/lstown-l.html
>
> Please do not send search requests to  SEARN any longer. SEARN is a P/390
> and it cannot handle  the I/O. As you will see, PEACH  is MUCH faster and
> offers a WWW search interface as well. You can also send new-style search
> requests by e-mail.

James J Drzymala <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 10 Jan 1997:

> Is there anyway to include the person's name who sent the post in the list
> of hits when you search the archives?  If not, can this be added in a
> future release?

Peter M. Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 10 Jan 1997:

> [Someone else wrote:]
> >2) I read it and I think the original poster is referring to the INDEX
> >output ie the #.5Sender or Subject#.37 formatting "commands". I believe
> >I've seen it in one of Pete's "clip'n save" (referring to a subject that
> >prevented me of preserving it :-)
>
> INDEX subcommand mode of SEARCH is "gone" from 1.8c Beta.

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