hello everybody Before I go any further, I would like to extend a warm welcome to Esther, who has just joined the Mac Access Dot Net family by taking up the offer of a free E-Mail account. This is an offer which we extend list-wide, you only have to ask. If you're interested in doing as Esther has done, feel free to contact us at <[email protected]> and talk to us about it. We offer anti-virus scanning at the server level, and also spam protection as standard. We also guarantee discretion and security. Anyway, you know where we are if you are interested. Once again, welcome Esther.
Now, on to Esther's post; This information is absolutely excellent. It is why we decided to make what was an experimental archive into a permanent one. It's true that we too also maintain an archive whose URL you can find at the bottom of each post to this group. But in all honesty that one is less powerful in terms of searching for information than is the public archive at mail-archive.com. Be that as it may, which ever system you prefer, we encourage list members to use the archives, that's what they are there for. If you have questions which you think might have come up before on list, why not check the archive first? As Esther so rightly says, you could either grab the file that Esther uploaded to <https://files.mac-access.net?login=mac-access:mac-access> put it on to your desktop or into the dock. That will give you a permanent shortcut to the mail archive for this group. Another way you could do this is by using the RSS feed which is also at the public archive. You'll have to have an RSS reader installed, but it's a really good function if you do. You can find that at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The archives contain a lot of information which has been sent to this group over the last few months. I'm not sure how long those archives are stored, but we are actively looking into the possibility of improving that function still further. Anyway, as Esther says, it's much easier than even using Google to search the archives and you may find you get answers even more quickly to your questions. So, well done Esther for highlighting this issue. We hope that list members will consider checking the archives before asking what they think may be common questions. That does not, of course, mean that you can't ask questions on list no matter how basic you think they might be. This is purely a voluntary thing; if you do not op to use the archives, that's entirely your choice. You may still post your question to the group. Lynne On 27 Jul 2012, at 23:19, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: • Incidentally, to find this kind of information in the archives, please either use the Mail Archive link at the bottom of each post or a bookmark to that page, or grab the mac-access.url file that I uploaded to the new facility for small scripts and useful files that Lynne posted about earlier at: <https://files.mac-access.net?login=mac-access:mac-access> • If you put that web shortcut file on your desktop or in your dock, opening the file will open the Mail Archive page for this group in your default browser, and you can search for content by typing your search terms into the text box like doing a Google search specifically on this list, but with more powerful and easier to use options. • For example, I got the FAQ link from my earlier post by typing "InfoVox FAQ" into the search text box and pressing return, and then opening the first linked result. You can read down the thread by pressing Control+n or up threads with Control+p for the next and previous posts. You can also use wild cards or Boolean operators in the search terms, which is useful if the term is misspelled, and you can use qualifiers that end in semi-colons like "from:" or "sort:" to modify results. For example, to limit your searches to messages posted by a given user, use "from:" (without quotes and with the colon at the end ofthe word) and then type in the user name. So I could have typed: from: Esther InfoVox sort: newest in the search box to get all messages that I posted with InfoVox in the test and get the results sorted by date order, newest first, instead of by relevancy order, which is what you generally want. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
