AVR-Chat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil" <phil1960us@yahoo.com>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 18:52
Subject: [AVR-Chat] Re: Searching the yahoo archive


> this has been a major complaint of mine.  There is a next
link that
> will search the next month or so of postings.  what a
crock.  search
> should be search all, not this interactive POS.  I'm sure
they did it
> to lower the load on their server farm but why not just
parameterize
> the search for range of files or dates with defaults that
keep their
> load low?  They took the laziest way out.  I wish there
was an
> alternative to Y groups.

If you can put up with the low signal to noise ratio, USENET
might be a good place.

news://comp.arch.embedded
and
news://alt.microcontrollers.8bit

or use this as a jumping off place if you don't have a
newsreader:
http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q
=

>
> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "George Smith"
<buggies@b...> wrote:
> > Can I only search the last couple of hundred messages in
the
> archive?
> > Even if I go to the first page (messages 1 - 30) it
still only
> searches the last 4xxx-4xxx.
> >
> >
> > George Smith


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