-=> On 10-26-19  22:14,  August Abolins <=-
 -=> spoke to Wilfred Van Velzen about echomail archive <=-

 AA> I see this as progress and a great way to provide a glimpse of Fidonet
 AA> to   the masses.
 
I agree.  Web based access to a BBS is *not* the same as internet
usenet.
 
 WV> Although sometimes it was convenient to be able to use ozzmosis in
 WV> the past, I agree with your statement!

 AA> All of the webbased presentations, including ozzmosis, lack one key  
 AA> element: Search.  Without it, a bit more manual labour is required to
 AA> step   through the messages to find anything.  The convenience was
 AA> limited. 

Ozzmosis did not have a search.  Other web based sites do.  I often use
Doc's Place (bbs.fisosysop.org) to check on messages.  It has a search
function.  One can search based on (partial) from/to/subject/ or body,
including combinations of those fields.  OTOH, the message base does not
go back anywhere as far as ozzmosis did.  A quick test tells me that he
has about three years of this echo.

Of course, I believe that you have to be a member of his BBS to use that
search method.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)



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