--- Gary Stearns <gstearns@OPTONLINE.NET> wrote:
> I've been trying to access the archives through
> Vanagon.com for a couple of days.  No go.  Is the
> server down?

Accessed fine as of today (Friday) at 11:34 Central
Time. You can try to narrow down your problem (it may
be with your ISP or the backbone provider that
provides your ISP with bandwidth) by using a
'traceroute' utility to see if there is an
intermediate step (hop) between you and vanagon.com
that is not functioning. If this problem has been
ongoing for a few days and you haven't been able to
reach the site in a while, drop me a note, and I'll
try to help you find the problem. (I work with this
sort of thing fairly often.)

However, were you aware that Listserv itself can give
you access to the archives through e-mail?

A simple single-keyword search that will get you
started:

Issue the command (to listserv@gerry.vanagon.com, NOT
to the vanagon@ address!!) of:

search table in vanagon

(put the command in the body of your e-mail, not in
the subject line.)

Then place an 'end' on a separate line if you have a
signature, because the server will try to execute
every line in your sig as an instruction.

Then, when you get a list of messages, issue:

getpost vanagon 01 02 03 04 (etc)  to retreive the
item numbers in question.

See the document
ftp://gerry.vanagon.com/pub/listserv/searching.txt for
more (access by pasting the URL into a web browser or
opening an FTP session, anonymous, to
gerry,vanagon,com, then cd /pub/listserv, then get
listserv.txt)

Disclaimer: I've never tried this personally in the
'real world' on any list using any listserv, so I
believe these instructions are good, but you may want
to RTFM. :)

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