I am using marc.theaimsgroup.com as list archive. For all IE users: you can customize IE so that you can search there easily by editing the windows registry:
-----8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<-------- -8-<---- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\marc-ant-dev] @="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&w=2&r=1&s=%s&q=b"; -----8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<-------- -8-<---- And you can type into the IE adress field something like "marc-ant-dev searchstring" and IE will do the search. Background: * under ...SearchUrl you can insert new "search" words, in this case the magic word is "marc-ant-dev" (for searching inside the ant-dev list on marc) * the default value (@) describes the URL to invoke. %s is the url-encoded search string. * only HTTP GETs are valid, so if you have the request to send a POST you have to hack a little bit more: provide a local html page which converts the GET to a POST and refer to that. E.g. searching inside the Amazon (German) website is done via POST request. So the searchstring refers to a local HTML page @="H:/startmenue/amazon-suche.html?srch=%s" and that page does the transformation -----8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<-------- -8-<---- <html> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function init() { param = window.location.search; if (param != "") { param = param.substring(6); param = decodeURI(param); document.forms[0].elements[0].value = param; document.forms[0].submit(); } else { document.forms[0].elements[0].focus(); } return } //--> </script> <noscript></noscript> <body onload="init()"> <form name="search" method="post" action="http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/";> <input type="text" name="field-keywords" size="40" maxlength="200"> <input type="submit"> <input type="hidden" name="size" value=10> <input type="hidden" name="url" value="index=blended"> </form> </body> </html> -----8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<---------8-<-------- -8-<---- You can create that page by extracting the form from a page and type in the absolute url as action. Works very well for me Jan > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Ferdinand Soethe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 17. November 2004 08:40 > An: Juan Jose Pablos > Betreff: Re[2]: Download Access to Developer List archive > > > > Juan Pablos wrote: > > JJP> I am not sure it that will works for you: > > JJP> news://gname:119/gmane.text.xml.forrest.devel > > JJP> I am using Thunderbird 0.8 and I have download the whole > lot. so I can > JJP> search by subject,sender or mensaje body > > Thanks. I tried that in thunderbird but got no connection with the > server. Is gname really the full name of the server? > Will try again later ... > > > -- > Ferdinand Soethe > >
