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. 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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This page and database maintained by Joel Dunn
Here's a link to the rest of Joel's web stuff

ffarchives.jdunns.com