Already exists as you describe: Do a name search on the JewishGen
Discussion Group archives. 1993 - current.

here: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main   Aug 1999 - current
and  here: http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~archpop  
Sep 1993 - Nov 2018

David Rosen
Boston, MA


David Lewin wrote:

It is an old "custom" for jewishgen contributors to end their
messages with a name, location and "names researched

Would it be possible to create a database which captures these facts
? It would be such an advantage to be able to contact individuals
based on the names they seek.

For the second link, for the older records, I see a search field for searching all the records at once.  But I don’t see that for the first link, for the newer records? 

Judy Kaufman
Irvine, CA