Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "paolovalladolid" wrote:

> The Yahoo Groups search feature is flaky - it won't return anything 
> posted before 2004.

The search feature works by searching blocks of messages at a time, 
not the entire message database.  So when you get the following 
message:

------No matches found in the messages searched. 
------Click "Next" to search more messages. 

you need to click Next to search the next (chronologically prior) set 
of messages.

It is a pain to use, but I think I understand Yahoo's reason for 
limiting the search to a range of messages rather than the whole data 
base.

You may see the "No matches found" message 20, 30, 40, 50 or more 
times if the topic has not been discussed in a while.  But it does 
find matches prior to 2004.  (At least on my computer it just did.)