You'll also see how to restrict the search to specific time periods. A good way refine your search is to limit your quest to a specific period of time. The from , to , since and until modifiers allow you to do this. Use them in the same way you would construct a simple query in English. If you don't, the search engine will return return every instance of every word in the search phrase, which is not what you want.
Quotation marks force the search engine to find the phrase.
See Retrieving Archived Posts for information on getting individual posts from the archives. The listserv supports searching by subject or sender through the use of the where modifier. Subject and Sender searches require two sets of keywords, one for the body of the message and one for the subject or sender. These keywords can be identical. This sort of search can also return a large number of results.