Re: Searching the BEE-L archives
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>    How about those who get email but no web access.  (Like the 1,000,000+
> people that use free Juno email?)
 
Then you've got it just that much easier!
 
I didn't mean to make it seem that the WWW address was the only way
to search BEE-L.  The search, in fact, IS by email - the WWW page
only makes it a bit more user friendly for some users.
 
Here are the specific instructions for searching BEE-L for those with
email access only:
 
 
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SEARCHING THE BEE-L LOG FILES
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It is possible to search BEE-L using a WWW browser at the
site:
http://www.reference.com
but the list of BEE-L archives here only go back to March
1997.
 
You can search for a particular word and retrieve all the
messages that contain that word (Warning: If it isn't a very
'rare' word, you'll get a large response that may still be
cut off because of its massive size! - Use this option only
for a word that you think would be pretty 'unusual')
 
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To search for keywords in the log files
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Send a message to
[log in to unmask]
with these lines in the BODY of the message:
//SEARCH JOB ECHO=YES
DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES CPULIM=10:000 OUTLIM=6000
//RULES DD *
SEARCH keyword keyword keyword IN BEE-L
INDEX
PRINT
 
in the BODY of the message.  Replace the words 'keyword'
with the word(s) you want to search for.  The words needn't
form a phrase - the search will be over the whole message to
determine if it contains all the keywords.  You'll receive a
list of the messages that contain the keyword and then a
copy of each message.
 
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To search for keywords and get a list of the messages
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Send a message to
[log in to unmask]
with these lines in the BODY of the message:
//SEARCH JOB ECHO=YES
DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES CPULIM=10:000 OUTLIM=6000
//RULES DD *
SEARCH keyword keyword IN BEE-L
INDEX
in the BODY of the message replacing 'keyword' with the
word(s) to search for.  You'll receive a list of the
messages that contain the keyword.  You can then request any
individual message as below.
 
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To retrieve an individual message from the BEE-L logs
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Send a message to
[log in to unmask]
with these lines in the BODY of the message:
//SEARCH JOB ECHO=YES
DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES CPULIM=10:000 OUTLIM=6000
//RULES DD *
SEARCH * IN BEE-L
PRINT xxxx, xxxx, xxxx
in the BODY of the message.  Replace 'xxxx' with the index
number of the message(s) you want to have sent to you.
 
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Using dates to limit the period searched in the BEE-L logs
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Send a message to
[log in to unmask]
with these lines in the BODY of the message:
//SEARCH JOB ECHO=YES
DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES CPULIM=10:000 OUTLIM=6000
//RULES DD *
SEARCH keyword IN BEE-L SINCE date
INDEX
in the BODY of the message.  Replace 'keyword' with the
search word and 'date' with the beginning date for your
search.  The following date/time examples are valid:
FROM 14 july TO oct 96
SINCE 96
UNTIL 23-JUN-96
SINCE today 11:30
 
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To search the SUBJECT line for a word in the BEE-L logs
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Send a message to
[log in to unmask]
with these lines in the BODY of the message:
//SEARCH JOB ECHO=YES
DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES CPULIM=10:000 OUTLIM=6000
//RULES DD *
SEARCH * IN BEE-L -
 WHERE SUBJECT CONTAINS 'subjword'
INDEX
in the BODY of the message.  Replace 'subjword' with the
word you want to search the logs for.  Notice it is enclosed
in single quote marks.  Notice too how in the lines above
the line beginning SEARCH was too long to put on a single
line, so it has a hyphen at the end of the first line and
the next line has a space as the first character.
 
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To get a list of messages from a particular person
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You need to first get a list of the people on the list (see
under BEE-L heading above) to make sure you know the exact
address to search for.  Then send a message to
[log in to unmask]
with these lines in the BODY of the message:
//SEARCH JOB ECHO=YES
DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES CPULIM=10:000 OUTLIM=6000
//RULES DD *
SEARCH * IN BEE-L WHERE SENDER CONTAINS ([log in to unmask])
INDEX
in the BODY of the message.  Replace [log in to unmask] with
the email address you want to search for.  Notice it is
enclosed in parentheses.
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