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You can use this form to perform keyword searches over all of the Astro-Photography Mailing List Archives starting from May 10, 1996 (the beginning of the list and my birthday too!). The results are divided by year.

The purpose of this archive is to disseminate knowledge of Astrophotography. The use of this information for commercial purposes is forbidden.

This search facility performs a case-insensitive search using a number of keywords. You don't need to put quotes around search words (it cannot search for phrases, only words). The results are sorted by relevance to the search words.

Selecting the Summary option displays one line for each message that contains the search words. The Detail option displays the link to the message, plus the lines of the message containing the search word. To put the line containing the search term in context, the line before and the line after the search-term line will be displayed (only the first ten matching lines). Also, the detail mode is limited to the first 200 matching messages for each year. There is currently no limit to the number of matches while in summary mode.

You can use the booleans and, or, or not in searching. Without these booleans, the search will assume you're anding the words together. Evaluation takes place from left to right only, although you can use parentheses to force the order of evaluation.

You can also use wildcards (asterisks) to search for matches to the beginnings of words only - you can't put asterisks at the front or in the middle of words.

  example 1: john and doe or jane
  example 2: john and (doe or not jane)
  example 3: not (john or jane) and doe
  example 4: j* and doe

1. This search evaluates the expression from left to right.
2. The search will also be evaluated from left to right, although the operation in parentheses will be evaluated as a whole first.
3. john or jane will be evaluated first, a not operation will be performed on that, then everything will be anded with doe.
4. This will search for all files that contain words starting with the letter j and that also contain doe.

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