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Robert J. Brown spake thusly in a message:
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> I imagine that this is a common problem for a number of people on HF.
> Would it be a good idea for us (the list/archive administrators) to
> investigate ways that the archives could be retrieved via email only,
> instead of requiring a web browser to do it.  What I have in mind is
> being able to retrieve the top level index listing, then the index for
> a particular month, then an actual article that was posted to the
> list.  An additional posibility is the option to perform a keyword
> search.  What do you all think?

Not to gripe, but I've just been browsing the archives to experiance the
early flavor of H-F(at Bro Clyde's recommendation) in hopes of
understanding some of the posted comments.  Is there a way to speed up
searching the archives?  Say a comma(or semi-colon) delimited text file
and offer a monthly(or quarterly) supplement?  Fields of say subject,
author, key words, and a link?  It could even be attached to an email. 
The updates would be small and quick to append.  Even a spread sheet
data base would be faster than it was tonight.

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