Re: Replies

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

> This list serves folks with a huge range of
>  experience, from the most to the newbie.  But two lists would require extra
>  administration, to keep the questions on-topic, and on the proper list...

And a LOT of us users at midrange dot com lists have trouble posting to right
list & keeping to the topic, but if you look at other lists ... say
http://www.topica.com/lists/eThesis for example ... there are a LOT of people
out there who are incapable of assigning a subject title to a post that has
any relevance to the content, and for example
http://www.techrepublic.com/index.jhtml MANY people are quite blinded by
various agendas, so we've got what passes for the best of several worlds
here, as well as the usual.

Even though there is some message on bottom of many screens about the search
engine not working completely, it is working satisfactorily for me at
midrange dot com archives.  To be sure, I access BPCS-L archives 20-50 times
for every one time I access the archives for a non-BPCS topic & for strictly
AS/400 questions, I look at the News/400 archives (not recently but
historically) about as often as I look at midrange-L archives.

My point is that the search engine works pretty good at the archives &
there's lots of good stuff there.  Perhaps to help newbies we should put
something in the midrange FAQ on efficient ways to use the archives search
engine.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)