Hello everyone, Sorry for duplicate messages, but I wanted to get this out as soon as possible so you can start having fun! The RootsWeb archives search is now working at the address below. I've included some of the limitations noted by Karen. But it's easy to use, and will get better as they get the threaded messages functioning, etc. If any of you don't have web access, let the list know. Someone will volunteer to do the search and send you the results. The archives are for 1997, and the part of 1996 after RootsWeb took over the MAISER lists. At some point they hope to add those, too. If you appreciate having this access, send a message to Karen and Brian. You can use the "webmaster" e-mail address at the bottom of the main screen. > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >It does assume you know the name of the list you want to search. But it's >not too fussy about how you type it: for the SMITH list, you can ask for >smith, Smith, SMITH, smiTh-L, and SMith-D, and still succeed. It includes >messages through about a week ago. I'll add new messages every week >or two. (It took literally hours to do the indexing, and we'll have >to turn the search off whenever we reindex, so this will only be done >every few weeks unless we find a solution.) > >We haven't turned on the threaded archives for all lists yet (and we won't >for those who have specifically opted out) -- Brian still needs to make >some tweaks to the system to protect against web-crawling >address-sniffers. (This isn't a danger with the non-threaded search engine >I just put up, where the messages are hidden behind the search engine.) > >Besides the lists that definitely don't want to participate (you know who >you are <grin>), the following lists aren't available for searching due to >space constraints: > > GEN-MEDIEVAL > GEN-SLAVIC > GENCMP > GENMSC > GEN-DE > GEN-FF > GEN-FR > >and a handful of non-genealogy lists. > >Finally, this is an interim approach. The proverbial "half a loaf". ;-) >The system we want to have is one where you type something in the search >box, are returned a list of possible hits, you then select one of the >hits, and presto! are in a threaded message base so that, if you want, you >can scoot up and down the thread that contained the message of interest, >post a response to the sender or to the list, as appropriate. The current >system won't do that... I also don't have control (or don't know that I >have control) over the format of the page of matches, nor of the displayed >message. Lots of room for improvement. Stay tuned? > >Karen > > > Let me know if you find someone! Judy Judith Marshall Arnold ([email protected]) My Favorite Bible Verses: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/1860/verses.html Genealogy Site: http://www.flash.net/~judyad/ COMING SOON: Grey Hare'd Graphics!