What's in the Flyfish Listserver Archives?

Enter your keyword(s) --->

This collection covers the full collection of postings from the list, dating back to October 1990 (NOTE 20230823 - I need to add a Base64 decoder to retrieved messages for encoded messages). The postings are indexed with Apache Lucene, which supports complex queries, including boolean queries. For example:

• Joel AND Dunn -- finds all occurances of my first and last name (note "AND" is case sensitive)
• Joel Dunn -- finds all occurances of my first *or* last name
• Joel AND Dunn AND saltwater -- find documents about saltwater and Joel Dunn
• Joel AND Dunn AND 1993 -- find documents about Joel Dunn from 1993 (or at least with 1993 somewhere in posting)
• "Conrad Black" AND 2019 AND March -- find documents about Conrad Black from March 2019 (hat tip to Conrad, he's been much more active than me on the list, and makes a better sample query!)
• Jo* will find Joel or Joe...but I don't answer to Joe :-) -- seriously, you can use "*" for a partial string match (stemming)

The search engine returns a maximum of 50 documents (use more query terms to narrow down). If this makes it hard for you to use, please email me and I can increase this or set a parameter. Unlike the old engine, this system puts all documents in the same database. This makes it easier to find things, but you will want to use the year as a search term, as mentioned above. There are over 400,000 articles (separate postings to the listserv) in the archive.

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