Well, I've gone and done it.  With a little assistance from Benjamin Chi
(LISTSERV guru at the University at Albany) I/we have set up the
mechanism for LISTSERV to serve up answers to BEE-L FAQs!
 
This has been on my to-do list since, well, forever!  The repeat of the
"Two Queen Hive Management" question last week prompted me to finally
get off my eh, chair, and JUST DO IT!
 
As we all well know by now, BEE-L archives are serachable by sending a
single line of mail to:
                       [log in to unmask]
that reads:
                       SEARCH BEE-L topic
 
There are flaws in the search mechanism.  If the search item is enclosed
in quotes, the search is literally for whatever is enclosed in quotes.
                       SEARCH BEE-L "two queen management"
gave two hits - woefully inadequate when there are around 20 posts of
interest.
 
If the search item is not enclosed in quotes the search is more free form
and returns any posts containing the words two or queen or management, and
it also returns every post that contains a quote of the original post
containing the words two or queen or management.  IMHO, this is the main
reason to keep reqoutes to a minimum, requotes pollute the archives.
                      SEARCH BEE-L two queen management
returned over 100 hits, way too much for anyone to plow through.
 
But I did not come here to beat that horse, I came to announce the first
entry in the BEE-L FAQ!  I submitted a free form:
                    SEARCH BEE-L TWO QUEEN
and submitted the required:
                    GETPOST BEE-L nnn ... zzz
to retrieve all the two queen posts.  I then identified those posts which
were pertinent to two queen hive management (there were 19, going back to
June '94), edited them down to a single file, removed as much of the
extraneous reposting of what was previously posted as I could and ended up
with a file less than 1000 lines long which will be the first in what I
hope will be a series of FAQs that can be served to any subscribed BEE-L
member by sending a single line of mail to the server:
                     [log in to unmask]
that reads:
                     GET B-L-FAQ 2QUEENS
 
This request should return the above mentioned summary of two queen
management posts made to BEE-L!  Hope you like it, more to follow!
 
Aaron Morris - thinking a BEE-L FAQ service will be great!