Hello William,

I am unaware of a facility to search historical facebook messages. Are you
able to explain how to do that for us?

There was a thread here recently about the relative merits of facebook
versus the email list. I think it is being deliberately provocative to put
down this list as of no significance any more. Firstly, the archives are
searchable. Secondly, many topics requiring fine discussion and detailed
analysis are unsuitable for the way facebook formats data and messaging
replies, thirdly, the vast majority of posts do not require photographs.
Facebook is primarily a chat and messaging application, not a suitable
forum for deep discussions, and yes, arguments! I personally have
philosophical, political, and practical objections to running list for
harpsichords on facebook. Let those who so desire use facebook by all
means, but I am not part of your audience, and I wager that usenet style
mailing lists will be around for decades hence. Deprecating this valuable
mailing list resource benefits nobody.

Andrew



On 2 May 2018 at 17:56, William Jurgenson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> By no means inevitable, it is a characteristic of bad jack design only.
> You can check out what Mike Johnson and I, each separately, have
> written on the subject. Mostly on the FB hpschd group which in the
> meantime has attained a much more important position than this list, if
> for no other reason than it is easier to use and allows photos etc with
> NO stress.
>
>

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