OK, I did. Since MSOG web site fund raiser is coming up (April), I figured I'd better do SOMETHING to deceive you into thinking I've earned it (you'll know we have enough donated when I stop doing stuff again.)

Actually, I thought it was a shame to repeat/lose so much of the valuable info that had been posted in the past (or pasted in the post?). So I built a 15+ megabyte MS-Access database of the 10,000 or so messages posted from January 1998 to November 2001. I re-typed every word myself. Took months. Cost thousands. Nah, actually the whole thing was pretty easy to do and took a few hours one evening.

It's a simple text search, but lets you search for three different sets of words in the message itself, and by date, author, and subject. There's also some help info below the search form, since the search program isn't as sophisticated as the big boys' search engines, but then neither am I.

Results are limited to 100 hits; if you exceed that, narrow the search a tad. I'll work on "Next 25" and "Last 25" buttons that will remove that 100 message limit. As with most web pages, you can Select text, Copy, and Paste it into a document on your own machine to save for future reference.

For instance, Steve, ;) type in "sheet to tiller" in the first search field and you'll get 23 messages for an in-depth discussion that will tell you everything you want to know about it.

Just go to "Other Resources" on the MSOG site and click on "Search List Archives".

The new list server gives access to messages since November 2001, and I'm going to look into adding those in the future (probably right before next year's fundraising.)

If you have any suggestions or find any problems, please e-mail me directly.

Also, I added the top menu to each page in the web site, since everyone seemed to be able to use it (Sorry Tod, but it's time to upgrade your machine.) ;)

Enjoy,

Doug