Date: Tue, 06 Oct 98 10:50:42 -0400 From: "A. Ling" <aling@alum.mit.edu> To: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Alternative to FreeBSD email archive & 3 cheers for Sue Blake Message-ID: <199810061451.KAA26171@min.net>
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Apologies if this is the wrong place for this post. Having just read Sue Blake's fine newbies article at: http://www.daemonnews.org/newnewbies.html and followed the links to: http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/newbies/ http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html I am moved to comment that in the past, I've had trouble finding answers to questions (prior to posting to the -questions email list) at the official FreeBSD mail archive site: http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists The main problem has been that search terms can turn up lots of questions similar to mine, yet no answers, even though I subsequently stumble across mail to the list which adresses the key issue, if not directly answers the question. Though it might turn out that there are better search terms I didnt know/think to use, I have also imagined (without proof) this might happen because people posting apt answers didnt quote the part of the question that contains the search terms, or the answer is on a different thread covering the same topic. In any event, an alternative, if sometimes slow, searchable archive for FreeBSD-questions is http://www.progressive-comp.com/Lists/ May someone out there find it useful, even if only occasionally! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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