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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:30:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Brian Sobolak <sobolak@mindspring.com>, Yani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Censorship in the mailing list search?
Message-ID:  <20011031072921.I35308-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20011031021353.D23867@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:02:22AM -0800, Brian Sobolak wrote:
> > 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 :(

Unfortunately Geocrawlers is pretty bad, too. I don't know what they were
thinking, but when you search for strings like "4.4" it changes it to "4"
"4", which is definitely not what you want. I'm not quite sure how a
system designed to search through technical/UNIX archives missed this.


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