From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jan 14 10: 8: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.bogen.org (adsl-216-103-84-120.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.103.84.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B63E37B439 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:07:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from bogen.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.bogen.org (8.11.5/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g0EI7lN02257; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:07:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from db@bogen.org) Message-ID: <3C431E72.9060900@bogen.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:07:46 -0800 From: David Bogen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020107 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carl Mascott Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-questions mail archive never available for search References: <200201131652.g0DGqSx00430@callisto.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The same thing happened to the -stable archives four or five months back. They were unavailable for the better part of a month, if memory serves. The webmaster for www.freebsd.org mentioned that this happened because of some problems with the software (freewais-sf) that indexes the messages. After this was brought to his attention, he had it fixed in a matter of days. Perhaps this is a similar problem. There were opinions expressed on -stable that when the archives are not available, it might be nice to display a list of alternative sites that contained much of the same information. Unfortunately, those feelings were never translated into action. Should we open a PR about this? Perhaps something along the lines of "when -whatever archives are down, the error message returned should also list a series of alternative sites." Carl Mascott wrote: > No matter when I try searching freebsd-questions using > the www.freebsd.org web interface I get this: > > None of the archives you requested (freebsd-questions) > are available at this time. > > Other archives are available for searching at the times that > freebsd-questions isn't available. > > NOTE: I'm not subscribed to this list. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message