Searching the PBS Archives
Mary Sue Ittner (Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:51:58 PST)

Hi All,

Three or four weeks ago I noticed that the pbs archives could no longer be
searched by words as the box that allowed you do so was gone. I wrote
ibiblio asking about it, but did not get a response. Yesterday one of our
members wrote privately asking about it so I wrote them again and this
morning got a reply. Apparently one of the previous ibiblio staffers had
created this utility outside of the mailman software and they are not
longer supporting it.

Although they would like to see this included in the future, it would be up
to the software developers of mailman to add it in an update. I found the
url for mailman:
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/

Maybe if a number of us emailed them and told them how much we would
appreciate their adding a search feature to the archive page it would
encourage them to do so.

In the meantime, our list can be searched on Google. If you add in pbslist
to whatever other key words you are using, perhaps it would help narrow
down what you find to our posts, or at least move them closer to the top
pages of the find.

Mary Sue