In addition to Rachel's observations, you can retrieve old discussion of
this list regarding four-day work weeks by sending email to:
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with the following message:
//     JOB  Echo=YES
Database Search DD=MIP
//MIP  DD   *
search (four and day and work and week) in MUSEUM-L since 94/01/01
index
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//theend EOJ
 
You will get back a message with the following index of archived messages:
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> search (four and day and work and week) in MUSEUM-L since 94/01/01
--> Database MUSEUM-L, 9 hits.
 
> index
Item #   Date   Time  Recs   Subject
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000266 94/01/31 21:57  586   RBS 1994
000527 94/02/19 09:54   67   NY Times 2/19/94
000955 94/04/04 16:54   27   Four Day Week
000958 94/04/05 08:48   40   Re: Four Day Week
000961 94/04/05 10:24   12   Re: Four Day Week
000964 94/04/05 16:17   65   PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY PROGRAM IN SAN DIEGO
000967 94/04/05 22:40   25   Re: Four Day Week
000991 94/04/07 24:41   13   Four Day Week
001054 94/04/11 16:24   32   Re: Four Day Week
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You can then send another email message to the same listserv, with the
following contents, to retrieve the actual messages (items):
 
 
//     JOB  Echo=YES
Database Search DD=MIP
//MIP  DD   *
search (four and day and work and week) in MUSEUM-L since 94/01/01
print all of 955 958 961 967 991 1054
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//theend EOJ
 
As you can see, the second "search job" has one statement different: the
index statement was changed to a print statement containing the item
numbers of msgs of probably interest. Encourage our MUSEUM-L list owner to
save old list logs; there has been a lot of relatively timeless discussion
on this list, and it's not being archived (due to policy of the institution,
according to MUSEUM-L's owner, J. Chadwick; logs go back to Jan 94 only).
 
(I could have searched for "alternat and (week or work)", for example, instead
of what I used, but I happen to remember that four day work week were
the relevant words. Choosing the right search words is always a guessing
game of sorts.)
Peter Rauch