Hi James, James & Nash wrote:
> How do I access the MacVisionaires archive. I would like to know, so > that I > do not duplicate questions and answers that have already been posted. There is an archive for this list at the Mail Archive site at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/ This only covers the period after the list moved to GoogleGroups (February 2009 - present). You can both read and search the list postings at this site. The archives for the earlier list (December 2005 - January 2009) is at: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/ I find the Mail Archive's site to be much easier to use for searching and reading than the main GoogleGroups web site for this list, partly because the page is set up so that you can run a search and navigate through the results both more effectively and with far fewer keystrokes than at the GoogleGroups page. You can search by author, subject, date, and use wildcards and/or Boolean arguments. For example, to search for the post you made on spell checking in Nisus Writer I would go to the archive linked above, press Option-Tab to move to the search field, then type in: from:"James" spell checking Nisus and then press return. I'd get a list of matching posts similar to Google search results -- a link with the subject of the post, followed by a short excerpt of the context of the matched discussion in a couple of lines of text. The date of the post is given at the beginning and the author of the post at the end. Just VO-Right arrow through the results (if you are using Tiger), or you can using heading navigation commands like VO-Command-H (in Leopard and above) to the links if you prefer. I usually run searches with web navigation set to group mode, so the excerpts get read out by VoiceOver as a block, but you can use DOM mode, if that's your preference. If I wanted to exclude posts containing my reply, I'd type: from:"James" spell checking Nisus -Esther where adding my name with preceding hyphen limits the search to posts where my name does not occur in the text. You don't need to enclose the name that appears after "from:" in quotation marks if it's only one word, but you need it if the "from:" field name is more than one word long. Any word from the message "from:" field can be used, but remember that what's matched is what shows up in the "from:" field, so if someone uses initials, you can't get a match to their first name in the "from:" field search. Similarly, we have lots of Scotts and Davids on the list, so if you just use the first name you'll get every one of their (collective) posts. If only one post matches your search, you'll simply be taken to that post. The really nice feature of the Mail Archive site is support for access key combinations to read previous and next posts in a thread with Control-P and Control-N (in Safari), to switch between lists by threaded content (Control-C) or itemized chronologically by time (Control-I), and to read backwards (Control-B) or forwards (Control-F) for the previous post by time or the next post by time. In other browsers like Internet Explorer, just substitute the appropriate access key (I think it's ALT instead of Control for Internet Explorer). While you can bookmark the links I gave, another way to navigate to the archive search sites is to use a webloc file. These are files that, when opened, will open your browser at a specific web location. I've uploaded two webloc files for this group at: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/files one is named "macvisionaries.webloc" and the other "discuss archives.webloc". The first points to the current list archive and the second to the previous (2005-2009) archive. I put these into my Dock, but you can put them on your Desktop. Opening either file will cause Safari to open a page pointed to each archive site. You can rename the files if you like. You can also copy them, open them up with TextEdit, and replace the URL with another web address to make a webloc file for another location. If you want a tool with a simple GUI interface to make webloc files (or URL files for Windows browsers), search the current list archives for "webloc" and find my post on how to get the WeblocMaker app, which works for both Tiger and Leopard, and on both Intel and PowerPC Macs. HTH Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
