PubMed query problem

[Duncan Clark]

Historians believe that in newspost 
<1179271012.138608.294220 from p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> on Tue, 15 May 
2007, WS <novalidaddress from nurfuerspam.de> penned the following literary 
masterpiece:
>I know that I could include the [author] directive, but why do I the
>get the paper, when I add the initials?

Presumably because the search engine software knows that a word followed 
by letter is most likely to be an author name? There is a lot on syntax 
in the help and FAQ's but an e-mail to Pubmed themselves may get an 
explanation.

Duncan
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they go flying by.

Duncan Clark
GeneSys Ltd.