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Searching Archives (was A printer for B&W: options?)

2004-04-24 by Paul Roark

>Searching the archives in a Yahoo Group is incredibly inconvenient.
>This group has 44,000+ posts right now.  The archives search function 
>searches ~200 messages at a time.  So you have to click "Next" 200 times to

>search all the archives.
>...

So true.

Google apparently has a new e-mail system that will include the ability to
search and entire e-mail backlog with their engine.

I wonder if we could somehow use that capability.  Perhaps they have a way
to set up a shared database.  Are they sponsoring groups like this yet?

I would think, given what their main business is, that they might have an
interest in assisting groups like this as long as the database was open to
them and the world.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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