Well, I've been playing with my shiny new archive! Great stuff! <grin>
I stumbled on a less than intuitive detail of the search syntax... First I tried: "From: M. G. Devour" ...and got messages in which I was quoted by others. Okay, not what I thought I was going to get, but makes sense when you read the instructions. <grin> Then I moved the quotation mark and tried: From:"M. G. Devour" ...which gave zero results. Huh? Finally, I tried the *correct* syntax: from:"M. G. Devour" ...which turns up all of my posts, as intended. Same thing is true of date: searches. I'm curious why the from: and date: directives bother to be case sensitive? It tripped me up there for a bit! Otherwise, I've gotta say, wow, this is a powerful search facility! It is just so great to be able to use arbitrarily short search terms. There are so many acronyms and legitimate items in our group's jargon that are only 2 or 3 letters long, that the 3 letter minimum of most forum software as well as the archive that we used to have, is really crippling sometimes. Have people managed to design nice front-ends for this, similar to Google's advanced search form? Something like that would be extremely useful on our web site. Thanks, guys. This is turning out very nicely. Be well! Mike D. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to gossip-unsubscr...@jab.org.
