Date:    Tue, 19 May 1998 17:22:34 -0500
<br>From:    Grant Barrett <gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DFJP.COM>
<br>Subject: ADS-L Archive Search
<br>
<br>Yesterday I got ambitious and busted up all the digest files into individual
<br> messages and indexed them with the new ADS-L archive search software. There are
<br> 13,496 messages, and it's a useful, fast search. I think this has the potential
<br> to be a useful resource for the savvy searcher.
<br>
<br>Not all of the messages ever sent over ADS-L are available. We have November
<br> 1992 through April 1998, minus three months in 1996 and a month in 1997. Unless
<br> I've misplaced them, or some other soul has them on file, I don't think they'll
<br> ever be added.
<br>
<br>Some of the links returned will have the digest headers in front of or behind a
<br> single message (digest headers list all of the subjects of each message sent
<br> for a 24-hour period to ADS-L). This could mean that only the digest headers
<br> will contain the keywords you searched for, but not the accompanying message.
<br> Also, you may sometimes get a digest header all by itself, with no accompanying
<br> message.
<br>
<br>These are a side effects of the programs I ran that split the files up
<br> automatically, and fair penalties to pay for the more precise results of
<br> individual messages. Before, we would *always* get complete digests, even if
<br> only one message in the file contained the keywords we were looking for.
<br>
<br>Keep in mind that a search for a keyword includes ALL text in a message,
<br> including the user name and email address. So a search for "missouri" will
<br> probably return all of Donald Lance's messages, as his email address is
<br> "engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]showme.missouri.edu". See the search page for more of the curious habits
<br> of our search engine.
<br>
<br>Finally, I search/replaced all line breaks in each message with a HTML break
<br> tag, and affixed the .html suffix to each file, so that they would view
<br> properly in web browsers. Some browsers may not like it that there is no proper
<br> open/close HTML coding in the document, but you can always Save As text to your
<br> desktop.
<br>
<br>Go straight to the search engine:
<br>http://www.dfjp.com/spotlight.fcgi
<br>
<br>Go to the ADS site:
<br>http://www.dfjp.com/ads/index.htm
<br>
<br>(My company recently changed its domain name, but either dfjp.com and
<br> jerrynet.com will take you to the same server, same site).
<br>
<br>Again, if you have any questions or problems, please let me know.
<br>
<br>Grant Barrett
<br>gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dfjp.com
<br>