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At 01:53 PM 10/25/97 -0400, you wrote: >Please tell me the proper way to search the archive. The address >([log in to unmask]) was not accepted. Thanks, Ralph. > > The archives are not searchable anymore using the tools I used to post regularly. Since the Listserv changed versions of the program they use to package and deliver the parkinsn list and others, searchable archives became a thing of the past. A friend and I created a program that let me perform the same service on my machine in Oklahoma City. I weekly downloaded the logs and compiled it into a database, from which I performed manual searches from requests. I have been away from my machine (on holiday in Australia) since August and will not return until the second half of November. In the meantime, Simon Coles has had a web site set up to perform the same function in realtime. His site requires that you read each message pretaining to what ever you search for manually. Don't remember the correct URL for that site though...or for that matter if it still exists. I have been considering abandoning the archive, since it has been a 'labor of love' and it is very labor intensive but will make that decision later. The latest version of Listserv supports the archive again....BUT, evidently the University of Toronto doesn't wish to convert...since it takes money and schools of higher education are always short of it. I for one have appreciated what we have had. The folks of Canada should be very proud....I know I am. Probably, the Current Topics list will be revised and I will focus my attention to that and the Drug Database. Thanks for the patience. John Cottingham [log in to unmask]