Archive search is back (finally)

[fl_bluebird_1983]

THANK YOU Dennis, you provide a VERY valuable service to the
Wanderlodge community!!

Thanks
Bruce Campbell
Clearwater, FL
83'FC 35 SB
"Blue Skies"



--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Nichols
wrote:
>
>
> Hello wanderers,
>
> My searchable archive of messages from the previous Wanderlodge
Forum
> was knocked offline several weeks ago by the company that hosted it
> for me. Since I had other, higher priority projects, it has taken
me
> rather long to get it back online.
>
> But now it is back and even better. Better how, you say? The
archive
> now includes the 49,337 messages from the 2001-2005 forum *and* the
> messages from the current forum (the one that is carrying this
> message). Not only that, but new messages are downloaded from Yahoo
> and re-indexed 4 times a day, so your search will include all
> messages save for those in the last 6 hours (at most).
>
> Well, that's the big picture, but here are details you should be
aware of:
>
> 1. The archive is open only to members of this forum. To access the
> archive the first time you have to log into the forum on Yahoo, go
to
> the Links page, and then follow the link to the archive (it
currently
> is the first non-folder entry on the Links page).
>
> 2. Having used the archive in its previous incarnation does not
> exempt you from rule 1. For your first use of the new archive
you're
> going to have to follow the link as above.
>
> 3. Some people have trouble getting into the archive. You can
> circumvent this, if necessary, by temporarily turning off your
> firewall (Norton, ZoneAlarm, ...) on your first visit to the
archive.
> Set a bookmark when instructed to do so. After that, re-enable your
> firewall and all should be OK.
>
> 4. The messages from the previous forum are numbered 1 to 49,337.
To
> differentiate the messages from the current forum, which started
> numbering again at 1, I have added 100,000 to the current forum
> message numbers. Hopefully any confusion caused by this will be
slight.
>
> 5. All of the messages from the current forum are not yet in the
> archive, but they are being added at a rate of 2800 per day. So by
> the end of the day on Friday, September 2, the archive will be
caught up.
>
> Hope you enjoy it.
>
> --
> Dennis Nichols
> '88 WB40 XXV
> "Priscilla"
>
>
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