Posts to the List

How to get & search the posts to the Broome List
for those interested in the surname Broom of any spelling

Each of the servers (Broome-L-Request & Broome-D-Request) has its own archives. Currently the only files in our 2 servers' archives are our postings to the list. Broome-L's archives has files made up of individual letters (let's call them individual files) that we have posted to the list. Broome-D's archives has files made up of all the letters we posted in a single day (let's call them daily files). So we write to Broome-L-Request to get an individual file & we write to Broome-D-Request to get a daily file. The 1st step (in either case) is to get the file list from the appropriate server & the 2nd step is to get one or more files that is listed on the file list.

for individual files

write for a file list:

write a letter to Broome-L-Request@RootsWeb.Com and
In the subject type
archive
In the body of the letter type
dir latest
mail your letter & the server will send you the file list that looks like this:

ls -l latest
BEGIN---------------cut here------------------
total 892
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3187 May 27  1997 1
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1214 Jun  8  1997 10
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist  18099 Oct 11 17:55 100
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1984 Oct 13 20:48 101
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1073 Oct 21 06:53 102
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2663 Oct 28 12:06 103
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1614 Oct 30 17:42 104
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1286 Oct 31 16:19 105
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2767 Oct 31 18:56 106
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1713 Oct 31 19:34 107
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2061 Oct 31 22:46 108
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1605 Oct 31 22:46 109
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2968 Jun  8  1997 11
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1802 Nov  1 06:56 110
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2151 Nov  1 07:32 111
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1743 Nov  1 18:08 112
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2141 Nov  2 03:27 113
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2645 Nov  2 10:55 114
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1801 Nov  2 10:58 115
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1998 Nov  2 14:09 116
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2234 Nov  2 18:55 117
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   6023 Nov  2 22:37 118
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   5627 Nov  4 05:18 119
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1009 Jun  8  1997 12
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2868 Nov  4 13:06 120
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2755 Nov  4 13:45 121
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2813 Nov  4 14:22 122
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3838 Nov  5 18:08 123
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3248 Nov 14 20:07 124
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1718 Nov 18 18:53 125
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2714 Nov 21 20:15 126
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2160 Nov 27 22:10 127
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3462 Nov 27 23:02 128
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2307 Dec  3 02:51 129
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2291 Jun 10  1997 13
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1147 Dec  3 04:06 130
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2897 Dec  3 04:09 131
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2535 Dec  3 06:03 132
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1537 Dec  3 08:32 133
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2027 Dec  3 10:45 134
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2430 Dec  3 13:58 135
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1190 Dec  3 14:45 136
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2084 Dec  3 21:47 137
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1952 Dec  4 06:45 138
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   4629 Dec  4 17:33 139
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1858 Jun 10  1997 14
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   5452 Dec  4 17:47 140
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3691 Dec  4 22:05 141
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   6217 Dec  5 12:47 142
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1306 Dec  5 14:48 143
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2915 Dec  6 05:28 144
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3093 Dec  6 07:55 145
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1652 Dec  6 15:07 146
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1136 Dec  6 20:07 147
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3186 Dec  7 07:11 148
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1833 Dec 15 11:40 149
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2208 Jun 11  1997 15
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1606 Dec 16 19:30 150
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1544 Dec 23 20:57 151
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1658 Dec 23 20:57 152
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1269 Jan  1 23:21 153
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1140 Jan  2 05:02 154
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1755 Jan  2 16:42 155
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   5617 Jan  3 08:05 156
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   4423 Jan  5 11:44 157
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   4423 Jan  5 11:44 158
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   4423 Jan  5 11:44 159
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2558 Jun 11  1997 16
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   4423 Jan  5 11:45 160
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1266 Jan 17 16:30 161
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1993 Jan 17 21:55 162
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1504 Jan 17 22:14 163
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    904 Jan 18 04:10 164
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2676 Jan 18 19:39 165
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2471 Jan 20 00:18 166
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2467 Jan 20 00:18 167
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1830 Jun 11  1997 17
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3059 Jun 11  1997 18
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1245 Jun 11  1997 19
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2539 May 27  1997 2
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1413 Jun 11  1997 20
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    908 Jun 11  1997 21
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1398 Jun 11  1997 22
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   5034 Jun 11  1997 23
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1412 Jun 11  1997 24
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1984 Jun 12  1997 25
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    993 Jun 13  1997 26
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1164 Jun 13  1997 27
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3760 Jun 13  1997 28
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    880 Jun 13  1997 29
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1159 May 27  1997 3
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    920 Jun 14  1997 30
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2491 Jun 14  1997 31
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    906 Jun 14  1997 32
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    848 Jun 14  1997 33
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1972 Jun 14  1997 34
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1440 Jun 14  1997 35
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    955 Jun 15  1997 36
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   4292 Jun 15  1997 37
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1821 Jun 17  1997 38
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1247 Jun 22  1997 39
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2650 Jun  4  1997 4
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1391 Jul 19  1997 40
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2783 Jul 20  1997 41
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1048 Jul 21  1997 42
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1279 Jul 21  1997 43
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    911 Jul 21  1997 44
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    925 Jul 21  1997 45
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    917 Jul 21  1997 46
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    945 Jul 21  1997 47
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1074 Jul 21  1997 48
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1344 Jul 22  1997 49
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2681 Jun  5  1997 5
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1512 Jul 29 06:23 50
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    928 Jul 29 17:38 51
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2903 Jul 29 18:15 52
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1792 Jul 29 23:02 53
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2549 Jul 30 05:51 54
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1404 Jul 30 07:43 55
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1133 Jul 30 15:03 56
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2036 Jul 31 00:26 57
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1937 Jul 31 02:45 58
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1122 Jul 31 06:03 59
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1450 Jun  5  1997 6
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3344 Jul 31 06:40 60
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2038 Aug  1 20:38 61
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   4973 Aug  2 09:53 62
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    937 Aug  2 17:13 63
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1159 Aug  3 15:29 64
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1594 Aug  3 17:00 65
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1777 Aug  3 17:55 66
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   5415 Aug  4 12:08 67
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1197 Aug  5 03:21 68
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1773 Aug  5 09:16 69
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1870 Jun  5  1997 7
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1736 Aug  5 20:05 70
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3227 Aug  7 16:12 71
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   4253 Aug  7 16:43 72
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1528 Aug  7 18:17 73
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1447 Aug  7 18:17 74
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1302 Aug  7 18:18 75
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1182 Aug 17 10:39 76
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    856 Aug 17 12:11 77
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1020 Aug 17 14:37 78
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1028 Aug 21 13:34 79
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1257 Jun  6  1997 8
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    930 Aug 22 08:24 80
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   3561 Aug 22 20:19 81
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2441 Aug 22 20:43 82
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   4354 Aug 22 20:56 83
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2609 Aug 22 23:33 84
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1707 Aug 24 14:15 85
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1979 Aug 24 14:15 86
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1369 Aug 24 21:01 87
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2413 Aug 24 21:05 88
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1656 Aug 26 14:53 89
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist    994 Jun  6  1997 9
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1995 Aug 26 19:41 90
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2538 Aug 30 13:38 91
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1772 Aug 30 13:51 92
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   2838 Sep  1 16:37 93
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1609 Sep  7 11:08 94
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1883 Sep 22 11:14 95
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1961 Sep 23 18:52 96
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1964 Sep 23 19:24 97
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1965 Sep 23 20:34 98
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist   1381 Oct  8 09:33 99
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To get one of the above files (which are letters posted to the list), e.g. the posting of May 27 1997, which is file #1 (Note the file numbers are in the rightmost column):
1. write a letter to Broome-L-Request@RootsWeb.Com and
2. In the subject type
  archive
3. In the body of the letter type
  get latest/1
4. mail your letter & the server will send you that file (i.e. letter).
Perhaps the other columns are not important, but the size of the file (i.e. letter) in characters (bytes) is in the 4th of the 7 columns. The 5th & 6th columns give the date & time of the file (i.e. letter). The 1st column is the read (r), write (w), & execute (x), protection of each file (letter). Note that the files (letters) are in alphabetical order (not numeric order) according to file number,

for daily files

write for a file list:

write a letter to Broome-D-Request@RootsWeb.Com and
In the subject type
archive
In the body of the letter type
dir volume97
mail your letter & the server will send you the file list that looks like this:

ls -l volume97
BEGIN---------------cut here------------------
total 246
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2848 Jun  4  1997 1.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist   815 Jun 18  1997 10.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist   662 Jun 23  1997 11.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1636 Jul 20  1997 12.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1530 Jul 22  1997 13.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist   642 Jul 22  1997 14.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2607 Jul 30 05:51 15.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2276 Jul 31 02:45 16.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2023 Aug  1 20:38 17.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2790 Aug  3 15:29 18.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  3043 Aug  4 12:08 19.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2312 Jun  6  1997 2.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2814 Aug  7 16:12 20.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  3021 Aug 17 10:39 21.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist   886 Aug 21 13:34 22.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  4750 Aug 24 14:15 23.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2084 Aug 26 14:54 24.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1985 Aug 30 13:39 25.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1702 Sep  1 16:37 26.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1184 Sep 22 11:14 27.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1359 Oct  8 09:34 28.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  5318 Oct 13 20:48 29.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist   802 Jun  8  1997 3.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1511 Oct 28 12:07 30.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1248 Oct 31 16:19 31.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  4205 Nov  1 18:09 32.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  6137 Nov  2 22:37 33.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  5840 Nov  5 18:08 34.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1458 Nov 16 03:08 35.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 slist  slist  1221 Nov 23 00:19 36.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 slist  slist  2430 Dec  3 02:51 37.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 slist  slist  4156 Dec  4 06:46 38.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 slist  slist  4348 Dec  5 12:47 39.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2351 Jun 10  1997 4.gz
-rw-rw-r--  1 slist  slist  2915 Dec  6 15:07 40.gz
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist  2024 Dec 15 11:40 41.gz
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist  1103 Dec 23 20:57 42.gz
-rw-rw----  1 slist  slist  1269 Jan  1 23:22 43.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1638 Jun 11  1997 5.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  6574 Jun 13  1997 6.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1950 Jun 14  1997 7.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  2567 Jun 15  1997 8.gz
-rw-rw-rw-  1 slist  slist  1974 Jun 16  1997 9.gz
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To get one of the above files (which are daily files of all posts for each day), e.g. the file for Jun 6 1997, which is file #2 (Note the file numbers are in the rightmost column):
1. write a letter to Broome-D-Request@RootsWeb.Com and
2. In the subject type archive
3. In the body of the letter type get volume97/2.gz
4. mail your letter & the server will send you that file (i.e. all posts that were posted to the list on Jun 6 1997).
  Actually since the files are ziped in unix fashion (gz), they seem to be protected & cannot be ordered via email.
Perhaps the other columns are not important, but the size of the file (i.e. letter) in characters (bytes) is in the 4th of the 7 columns. The 5th & 6th columns give the date & time of the file (i.e. letter). The 1st column is the read (r), write (w), & execute (x), protection of each file. Note that the files are ordered on file number, but are alphabetized rather than being in numeric order (i.e. "1" is followed by "10" rather than by "2").

You can search our archives for a string of characters finding the files (if any) in which the string occurs.
1. for individual files
  1. search the archives:
    1. write a letter to Broome-L-Request@RootsWeb.Com
    2. In the subject type
      archive
    3. In the body of the letter type
      search string latest/*
      where "string" is the string of characters you seek. For example, if you want to know what letters contain the word 1753, then type in the body: search 1753 latest/*
    4. mail your letter & the server will send you output that looks like this:
```
search 1753 latest/*
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latest/109:16:My gt.gt.gt.grandpa William Broom b.1753
latest/137:28:My gt.gt.gt.grandpa William Broom b.1753
latest/161:20:BROOM b 1753, his con CHARLES BROOM b 1784, and CHARLES daughter DORCAS LOUISA
latest/162:21:>WILLIAM BROOM b 1753, his con CHARLES BROOM b 1784, and CHARLES daughter
latest/162:28:I descend from William b.1753 & 
latest/17:14:I descend from William Broom b.1753 (according to age on tombstone
latest/18:38:3gt: William Broom b.1753 
latest/18:42:is the father of William b.1753.  This Charles is in no
latest/22:20:Creek Broom (William b.1753).
latest/41:27:William Broom b.1753 (NC?) had a son (my 2great grandpa) Charles 
latest/47:10:Message-ID: <970722011753_1691909776@emout20.mail.aol.com>
latest/53:32:John & Matthew are son's of my ancestor William Broom b.1753.
latest/54:50:> John & Matthew are son's of my ancestor William Broom b.1753.
latest/66:18:< <
The above output shows that 1753 occurs thrice in individual
file #67, namely on lines 22, 41, & 61 and also once in file #87,
namely on line 23 and in other files.
To get the letter, follow the instructions in I.A.2.
```
2. for daily files
  search the archives:
  write a letter to Broome-D-Request@RootsWeb.Com
  In the subject type archive
  In the body of the letter type
  search string volume97/*
  where "string" is the string of characters you seek. For example, if you want to know what files contain the word Daniel, then type in the body: search Dorcas volume98/*
  mail your letter & the server will send you output that looks like this:
  search Dorcas volume98/* BEGIN---------------cut here------------------ volume98/4:48:BROOM b 1753, his con CHARLES BROOM b 1784, and CHARLES daughter DORCAS LOUISA volume98/4:70:>DORCAS LOUISA BROOM who married JAMES WASHINGTON BOYD. volume98/4:80:All I can locate at the moment on your Dorcas is volume98/4:82:your branch. Where did Dorcas go to? What is END-----------------cut here------------------
  The above output shows that Daniel occurs 4 times in daily file #4, namely on lines 48, 70, 80, & 82.
  To get the letter, follow the instructions in I.B.2.
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