[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: ADMIN: Possible Change to the Main List Settings

[Shaun Hately]

On 13 Jan 2004 at 0:40, Kelley wrote:

> Now, these brought up hits from Yah groups, and most included hits 
> from Announcements (Heidi, lots of hits from Chapter Owls and FAWA, 
> btw).  When I tried to narrow the search to the Announcements list by 
> extending the domain from groups.yahoo.com to 
> groups.yahoo.com/groups/HPFGU-Announcements, I kept getting error 
> messages.  Was this due to trying to make an improper search?  (I'm 
> assuming it must be.)  How can you narrow a search to a specific Yah 
> group?

That's the precise problem I'm seeing - using google, it's not hard 
to get hits on a publically archived group by searching the entire 
net - it's not hard to get hits by searching all of yahoogroups. 
But the method that would most logically be used to search only a 
specific publically archived yahoogroup doesn't seem to me to work 
- that's doesn't mean it can't be done - but it may not be as 
simple as some people think.
 
> Anyway, aside from all that, much as I love the idea of being able to 
> use Google for our group's search function, my opinion is that our 
> members' privacy always comes first.  Hm...any techy types here know 
> of some way to be able to use Google technology to search the 
> archives *without* making the archives public?  

I don't *think* that would be very easy - if the group isn't 
public, I can't see how google could search it.


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