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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:13:54 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Brian Sobolak <sobolak@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Censorship in the mailing list search?
Message-ID:  <20011031021353.D23867@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <153104901840.20011031010222@mindspring.com>; from sobolak@mindspring.com on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:02:22AM -0800
References:  <3BDE4C5C.65994DD6@bulinfo.net> <153104901840.20011031010222@mindspring.com>

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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:02:22AM -0800, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> Hello Yani,
> 
> Monday, October 29, 2001, 10:44:44 PM, you wrote:
> 
> YB> Hi all,
> 
> YB> My SMP machine frequently hangs when I use the linuxulator and I went to
> YB> www.freebsd.org in attempt to search the mailing list archives for
> YB> information about that.
> 
> YB> Guess what? When I enter 'Linux' in the text box and mark *all* the
> YB> mailing list archives, the search engine doesn't find *anything*. I
> YB> haven't tried with 'Windows' though :)
> 
> YB> Entering 'inux', gives a lot of results.
> 
> YB> Is it the search engine's problem or I have to RTFM thoroughly?
> 
> You could try another engine too.  I prefer Geocrawler for the list
> archives - www.geocrawler.com.

The mailing list search engine sucks..it's just not very good in a lot
of respects :(

Kris

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