[Vwdiesel] Archive Search

[Roger Brown]

Joe wrote:
> That's kinda why I brought it up... Folks in forums tend to get a little
> grumpy when the same question gets asked over and over again.  But there
> really isn't much of an "archive search" feature:
> 
> http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/vwdiesel/
> 
> It gives you a list of threads organized by month and year, but no way to
> search them.  Granted, vwdiesel only goes back to 2002, but that's still
> alot of months.  I have a sneaking suspicion the list is older than that
> though... Audifans itself claims the Quattro list has been around since
> 1991.
> 
> This clearly pre-dates "forums" on the web... It has the advantage of
> allowing folks to stay in contact via email and not have to stare at a
> browser window, but isn't a great way to archive data for future reference.
> However, forums require quite a bit more maintenance and monitoring than a
> simple email listing system like this.
> 
> But I didn't think to use Google's advanced search feature... (thanks Mark
> Shepherd) It works, to a limited extent.  You can specify that Google only
> searches within the domain "audifans.com/pipermail/vwdiesel/" so you get
> fairly close to the info, but not in sequential order.  So if the same
> subject was discussed in several different threads, it gets all jumbled
> together.
> 
> Anyhoo, I just didn't want to re-run questions that I'm sure my 82' Rabbit's
> previous owner had already asked.  (his name was Doug Presney)  I've only
> had the Rabbit since August.  Though I have put over 4000 miles on it
> already, I still have alot to learn since it's my first Diesel, and it has
> quite a "personality".  It's my 4th VW, though the first 3 were air-cooled.
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 
> Joe Haas

This should work:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=+site:http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/vwdiesel/

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   Roger