At 06:50 01/03/2003 Friday, Rich Greenberg wrote:
 >On: Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:38:45PM -0600,Phil Endacott Wrote:
 >
 >} Can anyone help correct my syntax to make this search work??   TIA!!   . .
 >} . Phil---
 >}
 >} > S * in SUICIDE where sender contains G. F. Phillips
 >} Invalid search expression - string operation attempted on non-string
 >} operand.
 >
 > search 'keyword' in Sibernet-L [since yy/mm/dd]
 >                                [until yy/mm/dd]
 >                                [where sender is userid@node]
 >                                [where sender contains 'keyword']
 >                                [where subject contains 'keyword']
 >
 >'keyword' can be an asterick for "all posts".
 >'keyword' can be 2 or more words.
 >You can use since, until, and either form of where together.

Phil:

I think you'll need part of the RFC822 address for the SENDER and NOT the
name field.  If you do not know that, then change the SEARCH to something like

Search 'G. F. Phillips' in SUICIDE