RE: Help w/ querying the list archives

[Mark Hilbush <73441.73@CompuServe.COM>]

Reiner Fink wrote:
> Here is a hint (BTW, this will be fixed in Internet Explorer 4 :-),
> instead of trying to view the large textfiles with a browser (which
> sucks at it), right click on the article, and choose "Save Target As" to
> download a copy of the text file to you machine. Then view the article
> with, say, WordPad which can search the text for what you want. 

Think about it for a minute.  If I'm searching the archives for "cv joint", I
probabaly want to search all the archives.  To do this the way you suggest
requires that I download a bunch of the archives, which, aside from taking a
long time and consuming what little is left of the 1.2GB drive on my laptop,
defeats the purpose of having the archives on a central web server.  If I search
on "cv joint" what I'd really like to see is a list of all the messages that
contain "cv joint", maybe in ascending date order while still grouping together
related threads.

Sorry if I'm wasting bandwidth here, but I'd really like to see an achive search
tool that give me quick, concise answers to my questions.

BTW, I'm using IE3.0 final, final, final, no more betas please.  You know, the
one that makes me change my proxy server configuration before I can access web
sites inside my firewall.

Mark Hilbush
Baltimore, MD
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