Re: Searching Archives

Interestingly I put in a period "." in the searcha and all the posts
are listed with the most recent first. That way, I don't have to
page down to read the most recent post.

I edited the url and saved it as my CCED favorite.

Dave

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:
>
>
> echnidna wrote:
>
> >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.
> >
> >
> One possibility is using some indexing tools to find the several
> thousand most common words, striking
> the common english words (and, but, for, is, etc.), and then using
the
> remaining words in a searchable
> index. This index would pop up the articles that contain those
specific
> words. I'm pretty sure software
> that does this is available.
>
> Jon