RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Searching Archives

Bonus question: how large do you think all 51000 messages would be? I
could make a screen (html) scraper to go through yahoo and get them all...
but what to do with them then? I might be able to provide a location for
them, but it would definately be based on the size.

My 2 cents.

-----Original Message-----
From: echnidna [mailto:echnidna@...]
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 5:00 PM
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Searching Archives


Hi Group
When we do a keyword search of the archives only the last 1000 posts are
searched. Do a simple trial yourself by searching for "welcome" which was
the very first message posted. You won't find it!

So finding info in the previous 51000 odd messages is impossible without
opening each message individually.

Because of the huge amount of info posted by this group it seems that some
way of searching all messages would benefit all of us.

So how can we organise this info so any of us can find things easily?

Some Possibilities;
put it all into a word document so we can use the find facility.
put into htm format on a freebie website so we can use search facility.

As there are over 52000 messages, whatever is done will probably mean that a
team of us will need to set it all up.

What are your suggestions?

Regards
Bob Thomas