Thanks for doing all this Rob - a very useful set of notes for us all
who research the site. And thanks a lot to Anton for the
clarification, it is all clear now.
C
--- In Rob Danielson <>
wrote:
>
> At 9:46 PM +0000 5/3/07, Chris Hails wrote:
>
> > Can you (or someone) explain how the au
> >facility works ? \
>
>
> Let's say you wanted to see all of the posts with the
string,"ad2004" in them.
> http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?
query=ad2004&submit=Search&idxname=naturerecordists
>
> Lets say you wanted to see the whole string (all of the discussion)
> for match #5 in the search with the subject line:
> "List Upload URL (score: 9)"
>
> (1) First click on the blue link "List Upload URL" which takes you
> to the single post:
>
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/naturerecordists/200
6-06/msg00051.html
>
> (2) Click on the "Thread" button in the upper right
>
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/naturerecordists/200
6-06/threads.html#00051
>
> Look for the highlighted item in the list. In this page/example, my
> email is the only post in the string. Above you can see other
strings
> with more than one post in them in the order they were received.
>
>
> >2. Why do I want to search the archive rather than searching the
group -
> > what's the difference ?
>
>
> I was speaking of the ability to edit posts to change links. The
> posts on the bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au site would be globally
> editable, whereas those on the yahoo site are not.
>
> Google produces matches with our posts archived on
> bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au but not those on Yahoo. I bet a good
> number of list members first came across the natrec list through
> Google matches to bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au
>
> They improved the Yahoo list search since the last time I used it.
I
> can find whole strings faster on the
> bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives -- which is a pretty common
> search need.
>
> >
> >3. If Anton recently had to delete 400Mb that is hardly a permanent
> >sound archive either is it ? is it not better to have the links to
our
> >own sites properly presereved in permanent message archive and
> >encourage members to not delete postings ?
>
> Yes, but if we are talking about even having them available in 50
> years, its much easier to upload the sound files to one
server/domain
> initially and keep track of them there. Rob D.
>
>
>
> >
> >Chris
> >
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