[Vwdiesel] How do you "search the archives"?

[Shawn Wright]

On 29 Dec 2004 at 8:37, Shawn Wright <swright at zuiko.sls.bc.ca> wrote:

> On 29 Dec 2004 at 8:24, Gerry Wolfe <gjwolfe at telus.net> wrote:
> 
> > There has been a mini-thread here on "search the archives" prior to / instead of posing a question.  Perhaps lurkers (like yrs trly) are having problems finding the arc> > www.vwfans.com himself is under construction, and contains no archives.
> > www.audifans.com does have an archive feature, but does not appear to have any VW content.
> 
> Gerry,
> 
> I have not seen a searchable archive, but the messages are all archived here by 
> pipermail (the link is missing from the archive pages, but the content is here)
> 
> http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/vwdiesel/
> 
> Fortunately, the site has been picked up by google, so you can do the following to 
> search the archives:
> 
> <search terms> site:www.audifans.com
> 
> This will restrict the search to content on the www.audifans.com domain/host.
> 
> example:
> 
> glow plug test site:www.audifans.com
> 
> ...will return all you ever wanted to know about glow plug testing.
> 
> Search away! :-)

I notice these archives only go back to Jan 2002. Anyone know if earlier ones exist?
--
Shawn Wright
I.T. Manager
Shawnigan Lake School