[NAFEX] archives

tanis cuff tanistanis at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 9 18:27:52 EST 2004


I also have not had any luck with the archive "search" feature.   I thought 
the problem was my poor computer skills for anything non-intuitive/not 
user-friendly.   I've had more fun success just picking a month and having 
it sort by topic, or is it "subject"?   You get the month's topics in an 
alphabetical scroll; unfortunately the titles of emails don't always cleanly 
match their contents.   A secondary sorting would be by date, and then your 
topic of interest found by the first sorting may have related messages near 
or on the same date.

Is there an easier way?


----Original Message Follows----
From: "William A. Grimes" <
To: nafex@
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] archives
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0800

While I am sympathetic to the comments concerning people not first searching 
the archives, I must report that in my opinion the archive search is 
practically useless. Case in point:

Last week I posted a question concerning two varieties of cherries, Dyehouse 
and an unknown white cherry that grew in or around Blyth, Ontario 30 years 
ago. Since I got no response to my post, I went to the archives and did a 
search on "white" and  "cherry". Nothing found. I then changed the search to 
"cherry". Still nothing for "cherry" or "cherries". Am I to assume that the 
subject of growing cherries has never come up in NAFEX? Or is it that the 
search only goes against the subject text and no one ever used cherry as the 
subject? I guess my question is, how does one use the archives effectively?


William A. Grimes
San Francisco, CA

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