Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:32:46 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Censorship in the mailing list search? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110310831330.64806-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <20011031021353.D23867@xor.obsecurity.org>
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That fact that the mailing list search engine "sucks" has been the single bad point of my FreeBSD experience (dating back to 2.2.6). I'd be interested in helping fix the problem, provided that someone can let me in on how it works (or doesn't.) -- Matthew Emmerton || matt@gsicomp.on.ca GSI Computer Services || http://www.gsicomp.on.ca On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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