Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:05:28 -0400 From: Jon Wolfgang <jon-bsd@comcast.net> To: Ed Zwart <ed.zwart@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: searching archives broken? Message-ID: <45F5DCB8.4070101@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <6660f1280703101821s4390d297ga416edb9d6a03fa4@mail.gmail.com> References: <6660f1280703101251w1fac7df7xc1d0eb23b22dafc9@mail.gmail.com> <45F35767.7040905@comcast.net> <6660f1280703101821s4390d297ga416edb9d6a03fa4@mail.gmail.com>
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Ed Zwart wrote: > Jon, where are you searching from? The link I gave in my initial > question does not have the 'recent' limiter you mentioned. > > thanks > > e. > > On 3/10/07, Jon Wolfgang <jon-bsd@comcast.net> wrote: >> Ed Zwart wrote: >> > Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the >> > archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No >> > matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches >> > that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc). >> > >> > I want to search the archives before asking the group, but the archive >> > is way too large to make browsing feasible. Is search broken, or am I >> > missing something? >> > >> > e. >> I have noticed this too. The "fix" I found is changing the search field >> from "all" to "recent". For example, if I search for "mount", and >> search all, nothing is displayed. However, searching for "mount" with >> recent selected, returns results. I think it has to do with how many >> results it finds. Hope this helps, >> Jon >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > I am searching from the page http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists I can't get to the page linked in your first message right now for some reason.
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