Semicolons: mostly unnecessary?

[AJ]

Walter Bright wrote:
> AJ wrote:
>> I was on the D site last night trying to search the D archives, but
>> the search capabilities are so meager. I found a good post on 5/8/08
>> I think it was (about semicolons), but didn't feel like wading thru
>> mud to find earlier posts. So, I'm asking, is there a good way to
>> search the archives, via subject line etc.? There's other stuff I'd
>> like to investigate there also. I'd download 70000 msgs to my
>> newsreader, but I'm only using OE so can only do 1000 at a time.
>> That would be a great/efficient way to get up to speed on D history.
>> Recommendations? (Yes, I can use another newsreader if need be).
>
> The searching is done by google, so anything that works for google
> should work in the search box.

It just does full text searches. Advanced searching (by subject, poster 
etc.) is not available as in Google Groups (as far as I can tell). I would 
like to search subject lines only.