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
wagrimes@sonic.net