Andrew,
Well done! I've been messing around trying to do this in Access for the
last six months and not managed to come up with anything that is useable.
You're solution is elegant and has proved really useful already.
Thanks
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-europa@aztec.houxou.com
Subject: Searchable Maillist Archive is Online
For those who are interested in accessing past messages to this mailing
list,
I have placed the entire archive online. There are about 12,000 postings,
starting from July 1995. You can search by keyword, or browse through it in
a
threaded format.
These postings contain a lot of knowledge, experience and discussions that
are
valuable to everyone. I often search through them looking for certain
topics.
As the posting volume increases, I expect that a searchable index would
become
even more important. There were 30 messages in July '95 and 330 messages in
Jan '01.
Right now, the index is current as of Feb 28 '01. I will be updating the
index
at the end of every month. This means, you won't find the current month's
messages there. Sometime in the future I will try to automate this process
so
that new postings get indexed as they arrive.
Here is the address:
http://www.geocities.com/asarangan/europa_forum.html
Let me know what you think of it.
For those who are curious, the threading software I am using is 'mhonarc'
and
the indexing is done with 'htdig'. This is running on my Linux server.
CFII
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