Searching and Archive List Questions

[davewitley]

Amelia wrote:

> 2-HPfGU has one archive list currently which has 7818 messages on 
it.
> I believe these were from HPfGU being on Yahoo Clubs.
> 
> 3- Would moving some of the current (say first 20,000)messages 
onto 
> an archive group make it easier to search for messages?  Perhaps 
> batching messages into groups of 20,000 (an arbitrary number) per 
> archive.  Example HPfGU-Archive Two would have 1-20,000 then HPfGU-
> Archive Three would have 20,001-40,000 etc.  
>      If this would effect searching speed this would at least 
> make "recent history" searches simpler.  At any rate, searching 
> would not be a lot more difficult and frustrating as it currently 
> is. 

Oddly enough, you should go check out the files section of the 
archive group above, as well as

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups-Archives2/

and

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups-Archives3/

where the admirable Paul Kippes has done just that, with slightly 
different numbers of messages.  Look in the files section, not the 
messages.  At present, the archives go up to message 58,999, just 
short of OOP release.

Anyone with Winzip or similar program (you can download these free) 
can then download these archives and open them.  

This doesn't solve all search problems (e.g. a search across 
archives is still tricky) but use of a word processor program should 
expand your options.

David