Thanks Pete!

So, here is the reply I got from my technical staff fellow, although I notice that *your* samples below do NOT include your login info. How did you do that?  In this reply, I have actually changed his email addy, since his point was not wanting it broadcast, but you will see the gist of his issue below...

All our lists are post-by-subscribers-only. I am wondering if I have set something that makes the archives also limited to subscribers now? I didn't think I had, but is that possible?

I want the archives searchable by anyone, just subscriber-only-post-able.  :-)

Thanks again for your help!

Shannon  :-)

<his reply>
But that kind of link includes my personal email address in it (that I
subscribe to the list with).  For example:

http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?REPORT=&n=&m=&q=SetServiceStatus&
s=&f=&a=&b=&I=-3&d=no+match%3Bmatch%3Bmatches&K=1&L=&X=4D155851276B583388&Y=
[log in to unmask]&z=4&1=DOTNET-CLR&1=DOTNET&9=A

The above query string searches both DOTNET-CLR and DOTNET for posts
containing the text "SetServiceStatus".  Notice the [log in to unmask]
parameter.  And who knows what the X parameter indicates?  I'm not really
keen on sending out a bunch of URLs that include my personal email address
and unknown other bits of info. And only a valid subscriber's email embedded
in that query string will work. If I null out that argument (...&Y=&...) the
request to the web server seems to hang (or take longer than I'm willing to
wait).  And if I just change it to (...&[log in to unmask]&...) then
following the link results in a "Welcome to Subscriber's Corner" page being
returned.
</his reply>



-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Weiss [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:53 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Archive Queries - capturing the query string for the URL?


At 13:28 07/23/2002 Tuesday, Ahern, Shannon wrote:
 >Got this question from a member of our technical staff, and thought
I'd >forward it on to the group.
 >TIA for any advice any of you might have.

Cheat!

click on SUBSCRIBER'S CORNER and ARCHIVE SEARCH which allows you to
search the archives of MULTIPLE lists (but choose only one).  Using the
search criteria, display the results and copy/paste the resultant URL.

E.g.,

http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?REPORT&z=4

click on LSTOWN-L and type TODAY in the SINCE box.  Press the SUBMIT
button -- bingo!

http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?REPORT=&n=&m=&q=&s=&f=&a=today&b=&I=-3&d=no+match%3Bmatch%3Bmatches&K=1&L=&z=4&1=LSTOWN-L&9=A

Hey, there YOU are:

http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0207&L=LSTOWN-L&P=R2214&1=LSTOWN-L&9=A&I=-3&K=1&d=no+match;match;matches&z=4





/Pete