> However, of the individual message matches, all of them were dated
> before 2000. Of the archive/digest matches, the newest was dated
> early 2001 (Jan/Feb). I could not get it to return any match with a
> date later than early 2001.
Hm, I guess I was wrong. I know I've found things on google that the
regular archive didn't have, but this would suggest it's not as useful as it
might be, especially in this case.
> Also Google does not seem to allow wild-card searches, so if I am
> looking for all the possible combinations of "Olympus", I must
> enter "Oly or Olym or Olymp or Olympu or Olympus" which is a PITA.
Yes, that's correct; from their help page:
"Word Variations (Stemming)
To provide the most accurate results, Google does not use "stemming" or
support "wildcard" searches. In other words, Google searches for exactly the
words that you enter in the search box. Searching for "googl" or "googl*"
will not yield "googler" or "googlin". If in doubt, try both forms:
"airline" and "airlines," for instance."
though why would you be looking for "olymp"? Either people'll call it Oly
or Olympus, surely?
> Any other suggestions for searching the Olympus archives? Thanks.
Mirror them locally and grep, I guess, ick. Though if anyone _does_
download the entire thing it would probably be good karma to ask the list's
host first, lest there be some sort of repeat of the esif mess..
-- dan
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