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?