At 18:16 24/06/2006, John Addis-Smith wrote: >The new engine also allows adjacent word searches if you put the words >inside double quote marks, eg "John Addis". > >The new search engine page is at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search Many thanks for pointing this out John It is obviously a useful resource for One-Namers But in this context it would be nice to have a bit of "jam" in the Advanced Search:- So far I cannot see an easy way to exclude posting that are from myself Or to exclude postings from Lists that I have been following for several years. ["adshead - gordon" works in the From field, but "-Cheshire" seems to have the reverse effect in the List field] +Z_______________+Z_______________+Z__________________________+Z <www.adshead.com> Gordon Adshead Manchester Design Technology Beaumont House, 2 Goodrington Road, Handforth, Cheshire, SK9 3AT, England Tel:Fax:Msg:+44-1625-549770 Mob:+44-777-6145602 <gordon@adshead.com>

Gordon Adshead < gordon@adshead.com > wrote: > So far I cannot see an easy way to exclude posting that are > from myself > Or to exclude postings from Lists that I have been following > for several years. >... Try: +adshead -from:gordon@adshead.com for adshead but not from you and +adshead -from:gordon@adshead.com date:2001 date:"Jan 2002" to restrict the date to 2001 or January 2002 To exclude a list use: -path:"Essex-UK" (if there are hyphens in the listname you have to use quotes) To search just the subjects use: subject:whatever Regards Elmo -- --Keith Elmo ELDRIDGE --Buxworth, High Peak, Derbyshire, England --Elmo@aphelia.co.uk --'Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children'

At 00:25 28/06/2006, Keith Elmo Eldridge wrote: >Gordon Adshead < gordon@adshead.com > wrote: > > So far I cannot see an easy way to exclude posting that are > > from myself > > Or to exclude postings from Lists that I have been following > > for several years. > >Try: > +adshead -from:gordon@adshead.com >for adshead but not from you > >and > +adshead -from:gordon@adshead.com date:2001 date:"Jan 2002" >to restrict the date to 2001 or January 2002 > >To exclude a list use: > -path:"Essex-UK" >(if there are hyphens in the listname you have to use quotes) > >To search just the subjects use: > subject:whatever The new search engine page is at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search Many thanks Keith I did get nearly this far before: but I do not think that what you suggest actually works to meet my requirements adshead -gordon@adshead.com works in the From field to find postings from Adsheads excluding myself But how do I find postings from <anyone> excluding gordon@adshead.com [with say "adshead" in the body field] ? The same seems to apply to the List (or Path) field in that an initial "-" is taken as "+" ie -Cheshire is taken as +Cheshire ie How do I find postings from <any-list> excluding Cheshire ? +Z_______________+Z_______________+Z__________________________+Z <www.adshead.com> Gordon Adshead Manchester Design Technology Beaumont House, 2 Goodrington Road, Handforth, Cheshire, SK9 3AT, England Tel:Fax:Msg:+44-1625-549770 Mob:+44-777-6145602 <gordon@adshead.com>