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. -- Stephen W. Thompson, U. of PA, Data Administration, 215-898-1236, WWW has PGP [log in to unmask] URL=http://pobox.upenn.edu/~thompson/index.html