Douglas,
You've got a good point as usual. Myself, I am in the middle of a web migration (WIN NT IIS4 to Win2000 IIS5) and Classically it has failed. Please, no comments on Windows - we run that & HPUX here. My only problem with HPUX is that I have to retrain myself whenever I have to work on it cause it doesn't break! Having said that, I went home and had a good dark beer (the local brews being gone, I had a Leinenkugel Creamy Dark) and the perspective cleared as the head clouded.
So...
Yeah, I figured that your concern was with the terminology. But... the question remains for my clients :

Can the search function be set to search attachments ?

Northeast Wisconsin is also a good vacation spot - lakes, woods, bike trails and good music. (and beer)

Thanks,
Doug


Doug Wheeler
Sr. Technical Analyst - Information Resources
Neenah Technical Center
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
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-----Original Message-----
From: Winship [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 2:18 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Searchable attachments


On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Wheeler, Doug (NTC) wrote:
> Gee Douglas, I've been in the business since the dinosaurs roamed the
> earth too, but your answer, however clever, isn't particularly helpful,

Well that is quite all right as it wasn't meant to be helpful, it was a
comment on the use (misuse ?) by L-SOFT of the term "classic."

> unless you are implying that the Listserv Classic v1.8d (as per L-Softs
> nomenclature) doesn't support this feature on the Windows platform.

I don't know whether it does or not, but the function isn't a "classic"
function, and Windows NT isn't a "classic" LISTSERV platform, so I don't
see how you can have such a thing as a "classic" Windows NT LISTSERV
program. LISTSERV sitll works on VM/VMS/CMS machines, with all the old
functions which have not been ported elsewhere, *and* the new features have
been added. My objection is to the marketing use (misuse ?) of the term
"classic" for non-"classic" platforms and functions when it hasn't
ported very useful "classic" functions to non-"classic" platforms.

Pete said I should fix myself a rum & coke (Classic, of course) and relax.
Well, you can buy things marketed as "Coke Classic" but they really ain't,
as the original, the true classic, contained cocaine. And, beside that,
Coca-Cola has always varied, according to the tastes of the marketing
target (when I was a kid we didn't want Pat's cokes bought in Mexico (a lot
cheaper) as they quite noticeably contained more sugar, and Pat's kids
didn't wan't US cokes, not sweet enough (if the bottles got mixed in the
ice chests one taste would tell which was which)). So, what is the "Coke
Classic" which I am to mix with my rum (it won't contain cocaine, but we'll
skip that due to legal points)?

Lest you ask, the point of that is the use (misuse ?) of the term "classic"
as a marketing term rather than a true discriptor, which I do not like
(gasp! really?!?!).

Douglas Winship   [log in to unmask]

"One such convention requires that the goddess should, if possible, play
the _se_, a large antique zither, its true classical form long since
forgotten."
   Edward H. Schafer; _The Divine Woman : Dragon Ladies and Rain Maidens in
                       T'ang Literature_