On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 2:45 PM Riley Dosh <rjl.dosh@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm doing a search of the mailing list through the KLI archive, but ran into two problems. First, it ends at 2015 (because it migrated to a new server) with no clear location for later archives. Are these later archives searchable, and if so, where?
The page describing the Email Discussion Group on the KLI server has links to both the older and current archives. https://www.kli.org/activities/email-discussion-group/ The newer archives are indeed searchable.
Secondly, the search engine used for the archive doesn't accept words if they're too short or common. I realize this may be useful when ignoring common words like "and" but it severely hinders my ability to search short keywords. Does anyone know a way to bypass this?
As I understand it, the Sphider search utility indexes the messages, and short/common words are ignored when creating the index. I don't know any way to tell it to do a full-text search for words that aren't in the index. However, you can use Google to search the archives! For the pre-2015 messages, add site:kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol to the search terms. For example: site:kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol tetlhvo' -- ghunchu'wI'