NavList:

Peter wrote:

> "The Nav-L archiv permits you to see all messages
> for a given month, and to sort them in several ways:"

Well, you can use the "Return messages posted between: " function to
limit the search to a given month (and also by subject, author,
keyword, etc.). Don't know what else you're looking for, but since it's
a free service I kinda doubt that Google would be amenable to setting
up a specialized search engine just for this group.

--
GregR

--- Peter Fogg <peter.fogg@gmail.com> wrote:

> Have looked at Google's "advanced search". While it may be impressive
> I'm
> not sure it offers much more than was available through Google or its
> competitors with respect to the old archive. More to the point, it
> doesn't
> offer what we had, as pointed out by Alexandre:
> "The Nav-L archiv permits you to see all messages
> for a given month, and to sort them in several ways:"
> It seems I'm not the only one who finds that simple list by
> cronological
> order, modifiable, a very useful feature.
>
> On 5/19/06, Greg R. <gregr_ingest@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Peter wrote:
> >
> > > Am not sure how amenable Google is going to be about setting up
> an
> > > archive for our requirements. Would it be possible to set up an
> > > archive that functions as well as the one we have been using?
> >
> > If this group works the same as other Google Groups that I've used
> > (some of them that I've setup myself for various discussion/project
> > groups), there's an extensive search engine already built in. Try
> this
> > URL and see if it'll work for what you want:
> > http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&.
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > --
> > GregR
> >
> > --- Peter Fogg <peter.fogg@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Am not sure how amenable Google is going to be about setting up
> an
> > > archive
> > > for our requirements. Would it be possible to set up an archive
> that
> > > functions as well as the one we have been using? And includes all
> the
> > > old
> > > messages, as well as ones to come?
> > > Its kind of ironic to be taking a step backwards in this
> department
> > > when the
> > > rationale of setting up another list was the terrible (?)
> problems of
> > > the
> > > old one ...
> > >
> > > On 5/19/06, Fred Hebard <Fred@acf.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Frank,
> > > >
> > > > It might be useful to pass this info onto the Google folks, as
> well
> > > > as getting the current Nav-L archive to archive all the NavList
> > > > messages.
> > > >
> > > > Fred
> > > >
> > > > On May 18, 2006, at 7:13 AM, Alexandre E Eremenko wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Dear Frank,
> > > > >
> > > > >> We're in the  process of deciding how to create
> > > > >> a web-based archive that might be
> > > > >> more  directly under control of list members.
> > > > >
> > > > > The NavList archiv has some substantial disadvantages
> > > > > in comparison with the Nav-L archiv.
> > > > >
> > > > > You cannot see a list of all messages.
> > > > > (Or maybe I don't know how).
> > > > > The Nav-L archiv permits you to see all messages
> > > > > for a given month, and to sort them in several ways:
> > > > > "by thread", "by author", and "by date".
> > > > >
> > > > > There is nothing like that in the new NavList archiv,
> > > > > it only shows you the topic titles... which makes it much
> less
> > > > > useful.
> > > > >
> > > > > Alex.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> > >
> >
>
>
> >


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