The WebApp Search Page alias WASP lets you search the entire contents of the public newsgroups of Data Access Worldwide. Each hour the newsgroups are scanned and new messages indexed.
WASP is written in Visual DataFlex and uses the (embedded) DataFlex database
As of spring 2008 the database contained 180.000 messages in 41.000 threads.
To use WASP you need to login to the system with a user name and a password. To become a user on the system click “Register new user” in the login screen, fill in your e-mail address and WASP will send you an e-mail with a password to use for login.
You will get logged off automatically if you are not using WASP for a period of 10 minutes.
Enter one word into the search field to find all articles containing that word. If you enter more words only articles containing all words entered will be found. You may enter as many words as you like.
If you put a minus in front of a word only articles not containing that word will be found, i.e.:
Sture -Andersen
will find all article containing the word Sture but not the word Andersen (please note that the search engine does not distinguish between uppercased and lowercased letters (and that my family name ends on -sen not -son)).
You may also enter "Sture Andersen" (including the quotation signs) to find all articles in which these two words appear in immediate succession (as a phrase).
When you enter a search value the system will search the article text (excluding paragraphs quoted from other articles) and the subject line.
... decode attached files. You must go to news.dataaccess.com to get the files.
... interpret HTML coded messages. Such messages (a small percentage) are not indexed and will appear empty if displayed as part of a thread.
The site sometimes errors on submit complaining that User-Id has not been specified. This is an error condition but one click on “New Search” cures the problem
On February 27th 2009 Data Access Worldwide transferred their newsgroup forums to a new web-based system that also contains all the newsgroup messages of the old newsgroup server.
Having written and hosted WASP has been great fun for us over the years. We are now looking forward to a time when WASP isn't needed anymore and when more users can have easier access to the support forums. The WASP search engine will remain on-line at least until the end of 2009.
Sture ApS, Denmark
eeMale: sture at stureaps.dk
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Newsgroup scanning disabled
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WASP was programmed by Sture ApS
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