<<Disclaimer:  Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

Now that our celiac list is two and a half months old, there is a substantial
body of email saved in the archives.  Due to the recent publication of
several celiac support group newsletters, many new members are joining the
list.  It is inevitable that some of the new members' questions will have
already been addressed.  If you have recently joined our list, you may want
to check the archives before asking basic questions.

On 1/5/95 at 7:00 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

SC-Wa> Does anyone have a list of mail-order companies who sell GF
SC-Wa> products?  I know of only two who specialize in GF and allergy
SC-Wa> free products: EnerG Foods and Dietary Specialties.
SC-Wa>
SC-Wa> My husband and son have Dermatitis Herpetiformis.  I would like
SC-Wa> to hear how other DH patients react when exposed to gluten

For example, Mike Jones published an email with all the mail order companies
in the US, and Joe Murray has posted some general points about DH.

Here are the basic commands to search the archives.

Send the search commands to: [log in to unmask]  Do NOT send them to
[log in to unmask]

If, for example, you want to search for all posts on gluten from 11/1/94 to
11/10/94, you simply send a email to [log in to unmask] which has the
following text:

//Scan JOB Echo=Yes
DATABASE SEARCH DD=Data
//Data DD *
search gluten in celiac from 94/11/01 to 94/11/10
print
/*

This will result in an email being sent back to you within a few hours, the
content of which will be the results of your search.  If more than about 1000
lines are the result, the computer truncates the remainder.

If you omit "print", and instead enter on that line "list sender.9 index",
the computer instead sends you an index of all the results, with the title,
date, length, and sender.

The subject line of the email is ignored by the computer, but my software
requires me to enter something or else it won't send the email at all, so I
put in the subject of the search for my own info.

You can string together boolean search criteria, like:
search (((gluten or wheat) but not (rye or oat or casein)) in celiac

My experience is that it is better to start off with an extremely specific
request and see what you get, since so many emails on this listserv are on
the same basic topic - you can get swamped with too much info, and the
computer won't send you the whole thing anyway if it exceeds 1000 lines.
Once you get a general idea that your search works and gives the info you
want, expand the dates and/or subjects.

Since our conference is currently only ten weeks old, you might want to read
all prior posts, so the command would be:

get celiac log9411
get celiac log9412
get celiac log9501

this should also be sent to [log in to unmask]