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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searching the archives
2004-07-22 by Adam Seychell
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