From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.stack.nl!reality.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Search in Ada-Comment mailing list? (was: Re: Any problem with the Ada-Comment mailing list ?) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:51:56 -0500 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <87wqbb1uby.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <94de26e6-28f6-4162-af6a-46a5ef22014e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1407801116 844 69.95.181.76 (11 Aug 2014 23:51:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 23:51:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21671 Date: 2014-08-11T18:51:56-05:00 List-Id: "MatthiasR" wrote in message news:ls8cag$35n$1@dont-email.me... > Randy Brukardt wrote: > >> You can work around that particular problem by adding some additional >> text >> to your message. For instance, I think that a message like: >> >> help Ada-comment >> stop >> Ada is great! Ada is grand! Randy's spam filter is too aggressive unless >> I >> append this junk! >> >> would get through. (The "stop" tells the engine to not read the rest of >> the message.) > > That does the trick! I managed to join the list with such an 'enhanced' > message. > Then I wanted to retrieve the messages from Simon Clubley. I tried these > search expressions: > > search ada-comment subject atomic record > > search ada-comment subject atomic > > search ada-comment subject Atomic > > Then I gave up - all were replied with 'No expression match' > > Has someone any hints how to use the search function of the list server? > I read the help, think I understood it, but apparently I have done > something > wrong... The few times I've tried to retrieve mail with the search functions, I couldn't consistently get good results. So I don't use them. I just looked in the PDF instructions for the list server, and the commands you sent appear correct. So I don't know what to say. Since Simon gave you the dates, you could get grab the digests for each day starting with the first one: get-digest ada-comment 2014-07-14 You can put several of these into one request once you get the hang of it. === Usually, I'd suggest searching in the appropriate AIs using the search engine; for Ada 2012, that is found at http://www.ada-auth.org/search-ai12s.html (it's linked from http://www.ada-auth.org/ais.html). Almost all of the Ada-Comment mail ends up filed on some AI (the rest goes into ACs, which essentially is a place to file stuff that won't be considered). Even easier, just search the entire ACAA website (including all of the AIs and ACs): http://www.ada-auth.org/search.html [Note that the original subject lines, e-mail addresses and signatures are filed off of those, the former because they'd potentially be confusing and certainly redundant in linear reading, the latter just to make it harder for spammers and because they tend to change occassionally while this information is expected to live forever.] BUT, that only works on mail that's already been processed into AIs/ACs, posted on the website, and the search index has been updated. That's only certain immediately before an ARG meeting; the rest of the year, I do the tasks as time is available and not necessarily all at the same time. (Right now, all mail through June 23rd has been processed, obviously that doesn't include the set you're interested in.) Randy.