Hi folks,
I just realized it's been a while since I've made any mention about
the WWW GZG-L archives, so, here it is:
Starship Jockeys
http://people.canoe.ca/jhan/ft
Featuring:
GZG-L and FTGZG-L Mailing List Archives
House Rules and Universe Rules FT Showdown and FT Racing
Gateway to GZG-ECC Information
The archives aren't searchable, alas, because of cgi policy here at the
company. But they are indexable by the large scale search engines, and you can
find things that way.
Thanks,
J.
> The archives aren't searchable, alas, because of cgi policy here at
I use this search key in Alta Vista http://www.altavista.com/
to find stuff by subject line
+The +GZG +Digest +<subject terms>
For example:
+The +GZG +Digest +SV
Finds all the recent posts on the Savasku
> Tim Jones wrote:
> >The archives aren't searchable, alas, because of cgi policy here at
That is really COOL! :-)
How does it know to search the GZG archives?
> +The +GZG +Digest +SV
Cos in all the interverse the strings 'The' 'GZG' 'Digest' all appear only on
the GZG archives, lets hope it stays that way.
> Tim Jones wrote:
It's also some active maintainence; making sure the big search engines
know about my little site and keep coming back to re-index.
J.
> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Donald Hosford wrote:
> Tim Jones wrote:
it can be made cooler.
for a start, altavista ignores the "+the": "the" is a 'stopword', ie
it's ignored because almost every page has it in. thus, you can leave that
out.
next, this will find other things, eg a page with "i tried to digest the GZG
sa'vasku rules, but i found them too complex". thus, rather than
+the +gzg +digest +<search term>
use
+"the gzg digest" +<search term>
which will look for just that string, with the words together in that order.
even better, use:
+url:http://people.canoe.ca/jhan/ft/Archive/ +<search term>
which will restrict the search to files in the ft archives on jerry's
site. note that this includes the old ftgzg-l archives, which to my mind
is a good thing.
i used to use this technique to search the internic's rfc archives until i
found a proper rfc searcher.
well well well, whoever thought debugging and optimising altavista queries
would be a field of expertise? it's already a crucial part of being a
professional web searcher, i suppose. it's only a matter of time before
there's a "for dummies" book on it.
tom