search & urth & oz

OK, I see you all are getting restless, so I'm getting my act together and trying to make the list archives more searchable. As an experiment I've split URTH volumes 1-22 into individual messages and registered the approximately 2200 messages with Altavista and Hotbot. (http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/dirs.html) When these two services have had time to contemplate the messages (give it a week), you will be able to search the messages (I'll figure out the details later.) I will also look into the, um, personal altavista recommended by vizcacha. I'd be glad to put up on the web whatever FAQs and bibliographies you come up with, finished or not. Email them to me. Also, did one of you register the name URTH with the Realnames web service (www.realnames.com) on my behalf? If so, thanks. If not, how did it get in there? (Actually, it's not working right now because the old name "moonmilk.volcano.org" is temporarily out of order, but it will be fixed soon. Could whomever registered the name change the address to www.moonmilk.com?) And speaking of Oz, I just finished reading WICKED: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. It's imaginative and amusing and pretty long, too. (Kept me occupied during about 7 subway commutes.) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060987103/whorlwebpagoftheA/ (That last bit gives me a piece of the action.) ranjit.

Go, Ranjit, go! (Lurkers: Don'tcha just hate it when you're trying to do some serious research, looking through virtual reams [eh-hem] of archival material, and you keep hitting these goofy little "hi there" and "good job!" notes, with their smiley faces, hearts-to-dot-the-i's, and ilk of those things? Then there's the log rolling, sheesh!) ("What rolls down stairs, ("Alone or in pairs, ("And flattens the neighbor's dog? ("It fits on your back, ("It's great for a snack, ("It's log, log, log! ("It's log, it's log, ("For fun it's a wonderful toy! ("It's log, it's log, ("It's fun for a girl and a boy!") (Ah, another one of those charming commercials from the old "Ren & Stimpy" show. "If you =know= what I mean.") =mantis=