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> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 22:27:56 -0500
> From: Joe & Barbara Weinbrecht <http://www.samurai.com/lists> . There
> you will find both active and archived TWLists.
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> The ACTIVE section contains the most recent messages and can be sorted by
> Subject, Thread, Author, and Date. The ARCHIVED section has the same format
> but is divided into chronological segments dating from 1/15/98 to the
> present.
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> Subject - Groups all identical subject headings together even if not part
> of the same thread. A good way to read all posts on a single subject during
> that time frame. It's an A to Z listing of topics, the cyberspace
> equivalent of paging through an encyclopedia of trawlering. You'll find
> everything from canning meatballs to zincs and tons of good information in
> between. Because the archives are chronological, on-going subjects tend to
> get repeated in multiple date segments.
>
> Thread - Similar in nature to other news groups, this includes the original
> post on a subject and all responses using the same subject heading.
> However, they're in chronologic order so other posts may intervene. Even
> slight changes in subject heading will cause new threads to originate.
>
> Author - A little trickier, it may have the senders' real name, e-mail
> address, or pseudonym. For example, Captn. Wil, a frequent poster, is
> found as Wil Andrews not Captn. Wil. It does, however, keep all one
> person's posts together.
>
> Date - Renders a list of correspondence in chronological order.
>
> Text String Searches (Netscape 4.5)- Select a time frame in the archives
> and download it to your browser. Then select "Edit", "Find in page", from
> the menu bar and enter the text string that you are interested in finding,
> such as "diesel" (enter it without the "quotation marks"). This feature
> allows you to search forward and backward through each page (which in this
> instance is one entire date range of the archives). Note - this does not
> search the contents of each post, it only searches the subject line and
> author. You can use the same method to search for keywords within each
> post after you have downloaded the post to your browser.
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> The more letters entered- the narrower the search criteria. Try some boat
> brands or words like anchor, rode, pilothouse, bread, beer, or thruster and
> see what happens. Even parts of senders' names, if unique - like Georgs or
> Bryant, will be useful. This can be a handy way to jump through the list
> quickly. Friends report that Microsoft Explorer 4.7 has a similar feature.
>
> Occasionally, I go back and cruise through the archives in subject order
> and find subjects that I wasn't interested in previously. This also helps
> to prevent the message, "Go look in the archives!" being a response to a
> sincerely asked question. However, most listees will go out of their way to
> point you in the right direction more gently and give you subject headings
> to check out.
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> Please contact me if you have any additional questions.
>
> Joe Weinbrecht
> m/v CLEWLESS '82 Mainship
> TWList Help Team Member
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