Subject: Newsletter: Site Search Engine Now Online
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 02:06:50 -0500

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WHERE, OH WHERE, DID THAT FINAL REG GO?

BenefitsLink finally has a search engine!

Now you can enter one or more words (including statute
and regulation cites) onto an online form, click a
button, and BenefitsLink will search its files to
produce a list of matching documents.  One click on
any listed document's name then takes your Web browser
right to that document.

Give it a whirl ... you can find a temporary link to
the new search engine listed on the What's New page.
(Use the What's New button on the BenefitsLink home
page at http://www.benefitslink.com.)

Please feel free to submit suggestions for
improvements that could be made to the search engine.
(Use the Feedback button on the BenefitsLink home
page.)

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MESSAGE BOARD IMPROVEMENTS ON THE WAY

The popular BenefitsLink Message Boards soon will be
improved to make them easier and faster for readers.

Once the revisions are completed, you will have the
option of having the full text of all recently-posted
messages downloaded in a "batch" to your Web browser,
so the messages can be read or scanned by simply
scrolling through them (even after you disconnect).
Currently the "Subject" line of each retrieved message
appears in a list on your Web browser; clicking on a
particular Subject line (which is a hypertext link)
tells your Web browser to fetch the text of the
message by making another trip to the BenefitsLink
computer via the Internet.  Although the delay is
generally short, each such "point-click-wait" can add
up if you're wanting to read more than a few messages.

Over 500 messages have been posted so far on the
"Retirement Plans" message board alone.  Recently the
message boards were improved to enable you to search
for particular messages by keyword or to limit
retrieved messages to those that have been posted
recently.  There is no charge to use the message
boards.

(The message boards are accessed through the "Message
Boards" button on the BenefitsLink home page.)

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