Dan writes: > Sorry, but we CAN'T find it in the archives. MS is only two > characters. Searches apparently can only be done on more than 3 > characters.
Dan, you're correct. There are too many brief acronyms, and even regular words (such as eye, ear...) that *should* be legitimate search terms but aren't, that the archives are sometimes too difficult to search. Add to that the fact that it only searches on full words, and you'll often have to do several searches to get everything there is even when the subject is an easy one. The eScribe archives are run by a fellow named Scott, who set them up as a business venture that he hoped would be sufficiently profitable that, along with other things, he'd be able to be self employed. Alas, the concept came up short in that regard and, though he vows to keep the archive service running, he's limited to working on it in his spare time while holding a regular job and doing all the other things his life demands. Given that it is a free service, we've done pretty well with eScribe. It's done its core job and been surprisingly reliable. The recent server crashes were the first serious outages we've seen in several years of archiving there. However, there's no great likelihood that we'll see programming resources devoted to an effort to improve the search function in any meaningful way. The alternative is to develop and/or implement our own archive system or find another service of that sort. I definitely *don't* want to turn the silver list into yet another Yahoo group, so we are doomed to whatever I (or any helpful volunteers) can put together. My time and skills are limited. For anyone, it will be a pretty big job. I'm open to ideas... Be well, Mike Devour silver-list owner [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
