[Ifeffit] finding stuff in the archives

[Bruce Ravel]

Hi folks,

A while back there was some discussion about indexing the archive of
the mailing list.  Still a good idea, but I wanted to suggest a
user-land solution to the problem.

It is possible to find stuff on the archive using Google.  This
shouldn't be a surprise -- I, for one, cannot imagine how I ever knew
anything in the years B.G. (before Google).

Try going to http://www.google.com/ and entering this as your search:

    site:millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov clamp

This will return a hit for every entry in the archive that discusses
spline clamps.  In my last posting to the mailing list, I did this
google search:

    site:millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov imaginary energy

The "site:" directive tells google to restrict its search to pages
that match that site.

I learned about this trick from the book Google Hacks

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596004478/qid=1077200261/sr=2-1/
ref=sr_2_1/002-8270889-0247203

HTH,
B
    	
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