I learned something new about searching SCREEN-L's archive of past
messages today and thought I'd share it with the list.
As you may know, all messages posted on SCREEN-L are kept in an archive
at [log in to unmask] These messages may be retrieved by searching
through the archive, though this is somewhat cumbersome. You send e-mail
to [log in to unmask] (note: not to [log in to unmask]) with a
series of commands for the listserver to perform.
Anyway, what I learned today is how to nab messages from a specific
range of days (or months or years). What follows is what you would
put in e-mail to [log in to unmask] if you were interested in
messages from 1 February to 7 February 1993:
//MYSEARCH JOB Echo=No
Database Search DD=SEARCH CPULIM=99:00 OUTLIM=10000
//SEARCH DD *
search * in SCREEN-L from 01 feb 93 to 07 feb 93
index
print all
/*
In response to this mail, listserver will send you all these messages
and an index listing all of them.
Happy hunting.
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What the great philosophers have said vis-a-vis love (as
interpreted by Matt Groening):
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and
then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
--Kierkegaard
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| Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] |
| SCREEN-L Coordinator | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM |
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| Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |