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. ---------- 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 ---------- | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | SCREEN-L Coordinator | BITNET : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |