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From: "Ms. Piglet" <>
Subject: Re: Suggestions
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:53:35 -0600


Well, I'm not Tim, Andrew or Ellen....

But as far as I know, search engines *only* index websites. Not mailing
lists.

Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz
RootsWeb ListPig


-----Original Message-----
From: Mari <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: Suggestions


>You've just proven what I've been trying to convey....
>
>All the sites that have been sent in as examples....at least those that I
>did a quick check on, are WEB Pages!! NOT mailing lists. There IS a
>difference. Sure, Genforum is a query site....BUT...it is STILL a web
>page...that has query forms set up on it.....
>
>Tim? Andrew? Ellen? Am I off base on this???
>
>Mari
>
>
>At 04:15 PM 2/15/00 -0500, wrote:
>>When I go to Altavista and type in
>> +Everall +genealogy
>>the first site that comes up is the Rootsweb login page for the archives
of
>>the Everall list.
>>
>>When I first took over the Everall list I sent the URL to a few of the
larger
>>search engines. The challenge is to figure out how to do it. In
Altavista,
>>for example, go to the URL
>>
>>http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=addurl
>>
>>and fill in the form for whatever you want the search engine to pick up.
>>
>>Eleanor

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