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> Roger,
>
> Is the archive you mentioned the regular listserv archive or something
> different.  Physhare is archived back to January 1, 1994.  The messages
> can be searched with the listserv database program.
>
>  Dave Popp
>
The job to search looks like:

    //  JOB  Prime=No
    Database search DD=Rules
    //Rules DD *
    search " NAME " or " Name " in ROOTS-L since 89/01/01
    INDEX

the 'Prime=No' tells the host not to do the job till off-peak
hours, so the replies will almost always be the next day.  Name and
NAME are the strings to search for and the dates are obviously
adjustable too...

This provides an indexed list of 'hits' like this:

    message #    sender    date    subj. line

then the message numbers must be requested like this:

    /ship listname message #'s

All this is done through e-mail with the listserv robot.

I tried this some time ago with the listserver for phys-l but
it didn't work - I got the indexed list ok, but the /ship command
didn't work.

I don't know enough about listserv's in general to know if this is
a standard format search.  I seem to remember some discussion
on another list about another format for searching, but don't have
it in front of me right now ...