Re: lynx-dev searching the archive

[Philip Webb]

980721 Al Gilman wrote: 
> Is anyone regularly using any external search service to find things
> from the HTML archives?  Like Claude, I have not found this that effective.  
> When I do dig things out of the archives, it is done either by
> a) I remember who said it and I search the index pages for the author or
> b) I have the message in a known folder and go to the archive by date
> for an URL because people should read the whole thread or
> c) I have the message in an unknown folder and grep for a key word
> in my folders directory.
> 
> Are we leading users down the primrose path by pointing them
> at search services that don't really cover what FLORA has archived for us?
 
my own experience with searching the Archive is that it doesn't work
& i don't use it these days.  perhaps we should try to find something better?

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