Re: [GBlist] archive size

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh Corwyn:

>I just use altavista, or google to search.  Sometimes restricting 
>the search to the archives, sometimes not.  It is surprising how 
>often a search on the whole web for a piece of green building 
>advice, has a majority of hits from the green building list archive. 
>In fact this is how I found this list in the first place.

     I've done this, too, but this provides a very incomplete list. 
For instance, if I remember one attempt I made correctly, restrict 
Google to the archives and then search on "Speireag", which in that 
context is a unique string.  Should pull up all of my posts, right? 
Pulls up a small fraction.

Sgrìobh Ethan Goldman:

>I agree wholeheartedly, and I've started working on indexing the 
>archives - all 21,000 pages! There are still some bugs, such as that 
>the list of found pages does not display the subject line, but only 
>tells you what month & year the post was from. I hope to have a 
>version ready for you all to test soon, so please be patient and 
>keep sending me suggestion for other improvements.

     This is very good news, Ethan.  I look forward to seeing it.

-Speireag.
-- 
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree 
which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the 
valley of the Euphrates.  -- Theodore Roosevelt 

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