[Dxbase] Searching BBS Archives

Wed May 18 21:50:34 EDT 2005

Mail list archives
Most list managers will choose to activate Mailman's archival features to 
make list history available to members. Mailman makes its archives available 
through each list's information page. Keep in mind that the list manager may 
have chosen not to archive a particular list to which you belong. Also keep 
in mind that it is a general practice to make the list archive available 
only to list subscribers.
If the archive is 'open' then you will be able to go straight in from the 
information page. If the archive is for subscribers only then you will be 
prompted for your email address and your list password. Once in, you will be 
shown a historical listing.
The default setting for the archive is to divide messages by month. Do not 
be surprised, however, if you see some other division of the archive 
contents: the list manager decides how things will be divided up. There are 
different viewing options for each month:
 Thread
 separates topics from each other and then displays the messages that are 
part of each "thread" following one another in an indented fashion. This 
view is best to use if you want an idea of how conversation on a particular 
topic progressed.
 Subject
 sorts all postings alphabetically by the subject line. This view is useful 
for finding a particular topic, but it will not show the relationships in a 
visual form as in the Thread view.
 Author
 sorts all postings alphabetically based on the name of the author.
 Date
 sorts all postings by the date they were delivered to the list.
The final option allows you to download a gzipped version of the archive for 
that month. gzip is a compression utility whose files end in '.gz'. Most zip 
utilities are able to open gzipped files. This option is useful if you want 
to search the archive on a particular term (you can use 'most any word 
processor or text editor or grep utility).
After you have chosen how you wish to view the archive you will see the 
headers of the messages displayed according to your specified criteria. To 
read an individual email, just click on its subject line. When the email 
appears there will be additional navigational information allowing you to 
see the previous or next message (as you had them sorted), or to request the 
listing of all of the emails again sorted by a different criteria.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Benedict" <john at ke5rs.com>
To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:27 PM
Subject: [Dxbase] Searching BBS Archives
> Hello DXBase Group
>> Is there a way to search this BBS archives?
>> John
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