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Frank,

> There wasn't an easy way to do that an hour and a half ago, but now there is.

Thanks for this useful feature. Can you make it case-sensitive?

While trying it, I discovered that I was absent from the list not 5 years
as I said before but only since 2009 :-)
In the last thread of 2009 that I participated the question was discussed
whether certain C.Plath's of WWII Kriegsmarine on e-bay are fake.
They looked suspiciously similar to SNO-M.

I investigated the matter. These are indeed genuine C-Plath, little
known model.
Apparently SNO-M was an exact copy of it.
As a proof, look at the picture
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/Navigation/submarine.jpg
There is little doubt that this is a genuine war time photo of a German
navigator, and he holds this "fake" C.Plath.

One Russian seller told me (as a secret) that there was some old cache
in a Soviet navy storehouse in the former East Prussia (now Russian
Kaliningrad
region) full of these "SNO-M". And the
boxes are marked SNO-M.
However when you scratch the paint on the sextant arm, the German insignia
opens...
He said that these Kriegsmarine C.Plaths on e-bay come from this storage.
One difference is that the drum on a German-made C.Plath was of white
plastic while on SNO-M it is of metal painted khaki.

(After he told me the story I sent him the photo. So he may use it now
for advertising:-)
Somehow I was sure that I told this story on the list. But my last
postings
of 2009 show that I did not... So I am teling it now.

Alex.


Go to the
top of the NavList main page and look for the link that says
"generate custom index". It should be self-explanatory. If you want all 
messages in a thread with a reasonably specific subject, it works fine. But 
if the subject is generic, you will get hits for multiple threads. For 
example, try setting the low date to 200101 and the high date to 201201 and 
in the subject field enter "lunar distances" (without the quotes). Leave the 
author field blank and hit 'Generate Index'. You will find that it returns 
all messages from about two dozen different threads. Now go back and change 
the subject to "Grenadine lunar". That's very specific so it returns all the 
messages in one single thread ...from nine years ago.
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