>I appreciate your sending me to the archives. No doubt there's an >incredible amount of information there. Unfortunately, it's not very >easy to use, unless I'm doing something terribly wrong. When I use the >search, it gives me a list of places I can go to get XX. But when I get >there, I find a jumbled and scrambled mess. Posts, and repeats of posts >with one line added, then 10 posts of totally different content, then >the original post again with the one line added, plus one more line... >I must be doing something wrong. >Brian Trout >Quarryville, Pa. There's the rub. The archives are stored just as they were posted, warts, repetition, and all. To find anything there involves going through the sequential posts just like everyone did the first time around on the List. Condensing, categorizing, and cataloging the information would require vast amounts of time, and too many judgement calls as to what was, and was not, important. Then there's the problem of key word categorization. How big a miscellaneous file can you stand? What do you file *this* type of post under? then you get to wait on the internet servers involved to transfer the data packets when your time share comes up on the wheel. Bit by bogged down bit, you wait for the next screen to skim and bypass. Here's where the archives on CD would save a lot of time. The format wouldn't be any different, but you could wade through it faster and cheaper from your CD drive than you can on line. You're doing it right, it's just a built in and natural limitation of the process. Ron
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