On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:14:40AM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 03 Jan 2003 7:37 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> > Mark Weaver wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I wish I had a dollar, (accounting for the current rate of inflation),
> > > for every time I've seen this need addressed in these lists. Doesn't
> > > anyone read the archives any more? ;)
> >
> > If there was a way to request the archives to send us information by
> > email from a email query I am sure many of us would use the archives.
> > Unfortunately though many of us do not have either permanent or cheap
> > 24/7 connections to the Internet.
> >
> > Hylton
> 
> If there were clear links to the archives and an easy way of searching them we 
> would use them more.  I haven't seen the archives for months - I never see 
> any link to them and can't remember the url
> 
> Anne

If you use Mozilla or Phoenix (don't know about NS7) and haven't been
using custom keyword searching, now's the time to learn.

Just go to any site that has a search (like the newbie archives at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/), enter a dummy
search phrase like "coffee" (no quotes) and bookmark the results page.

Next, go to Bookmarks > Mangage bookmarks, and look at the properties of
the bookmark you just made. Locate the word "coffee" in the URL and replace
it with "%s" (no quotes). In the keyword field, enter a short phrase
you'll remember; I use "newb".

Now when I enter "newb boot hang cups" in the address bar I go directly to
the results page of a Mandrake newbie search on "boot hang cups".
Pretty cool!

I also have custom searches for Freshmeat.net, rpmfind.net, m-w.com,
sourceforge, amazon.com, LDP, google (web, groups, images, and news) and
a few others. Very handy for URL's I'm always forgetting/misplacing.

Todd

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