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searching the archives

2004-07-22 by Adam Seychell

Dave Mucha wrote:
>>Does the yahoo groups "search archive" feature search the entire 
> 
> hystory 
> 
>>of the messages ? I coulnd't find this message using the yahoo 
> 
> search. 
> 
>>All the messages are stored, but it seems they cannot all be 
> 
> searched. I 
> 
>>had to search for this message from the email folder on my home PC.
> 
> 
> 
> Yahoo does indeed search on one keyword, but only 250 records at a 
> time and then reports the results for those 250 posts.
> 
> Since your search showed post 1561 and we are on post 6,383 then you 
> would to hit the NEXT button quite a few times !
> 
I first found the message searching my PC email folder, I got the 
date of that message , then went to yahoo groups web page and 
manually selected messages by # number until I got one close to 
the date. Then I could use next/prev buttons to look for exact 
the message I was searching.

I don't know why they don't allow full archive searching via the 
web site. I didn't have a problems with matching first 250 posts, 
it simply didn't find anything with the string I entered. Try 
using the search and I bet you cannot get it to show anything in 
the year 2003 for example.

Adam

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