Om the FFL 'message history', On the FFL main web page the 'message history' archive matrix that is organized by month and year is working again better now in this new yahoo-neo world. It reports in slim mode and you can scroll down through a month. Would be nice too if you could navigate back up through posts to the preceding month. This is a great way to find the areas where threads were discussed in a way that the neo search function has not really allowed for in browsing. Like, when Maharishi passed away, 'February- 2008' One can now go quickly a few days from Feb 1 to where posts announcing his death surface. Some very poignant posts recorded there for quite a while. Even the first couple hundred posts made to FFL back in Sept and October 2001 are interesting to see trend-lines then. Then also, one can use an index to FFL to find subjects and locate an approximate month to search. 'Drill baby, drill'. There are a lot of nuggets amongst the dross. -Buck The old FFL index still sort of works with Neo. Yahoo- groups truncates now-adays at 64K but this link to the old index seems in tack still. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/352508 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/352508
As Authfriend points out, You can 'right click' over links and open in a 'new tab' and still come back to the index without losing your place. One workaround is if you find a message you want to read on the list of search hits, instead of left-clicking on the link to the message to open it directly, right-click on it, then click "Open in New Tab" (this is in Windows 7 using Chrome; not sure if there's a Mac equivalent, but as I recall IE had a similar option). Read the message in the new tab, and close or save it or whatever when you're done. You'll then be back in the list you were perusing and still be where you were instead of being thrown back to the beginning. Within 'messages' on the FFL page I find typing in a word to search in to the box at the top of the page starts something as a search. Then that gets you the opportunity for, “advanced search” that comes with the results of the first search. Once you get going that can narrow down. But each time it kicks you back out to square one. Neo is quite miserable. Any other suggestions to lurkers to help with searches? -Buck .
