[WBEL-users] errata question

[Vicki Reeves]

Regarding searching the archives of the White Box lists,

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:37, donavan nelson wrote:
> we are both mistaken:
> 
> JM quote: 
> "Email is just there (all too much of it but
> that is another rant)  and with a good archive it can be searched and
> allows new users to get up to speed. "
> 
> find me a good email archive now, some users will need to be pointed to it.
Sorry, it was actually Johnny Hughes who explained how to search the
archives.  He wrote:
"No search engine except ... download the archives as text and use
something like gedit."

John would have said 'something like grep' :-)

Then Jeff really solved the problem by explaining how to make Google
search the archive.  
<keyword> site:<beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/>

Thanks, Jeff, that works just fine.

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