Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:10:32 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Les Lytollis <les.lytollis@morse.com> Cc: "Freebsd-Newbies (E-mail)" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: first post Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10202012152120.44419-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <0F59E973A6C7D511886F00508BFC92971618B0@DBYEXCH1>
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On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Les Lytollis wrote:
> > > I'm trying to search the mailing list archives before I go
> > posting to the
> > > questions list.
> > > Can anyone tell me why a search for (e.g) Maxtor returns a
> > resultset no
> > > problem - but a search for something like an error string
> > ("ad0: READ
> > > command timeout")or "MAKE DEPEND" returns nothing?
>
> > Everyone.... please, please, please ask questions in
> > -questions.
>
>
> OK, sorry
>
> I assumed because this was a non-technical v. newbie question it was
> appropriate here.
I will not answer the question but I will tell you my experience.
I have used the search stuff on www.freebsd.org extensively--the
mailing list archives.
But I have much better luck with www.google.com. I click on Groups.
I put in the search box
mailing.freebsd
I get a list of all the freebsd mailing groups. I can view the
messages in a "group" (e.g., what google calls mailing.freebsd.questions)
or I can search all the groups. As I recall there's a radio button for
searching all google groups or only the specific group or groups.
This gave me over 700 hits on ad0: READ command timeout
I can sort these by date or relevance.
Why does this work so much better than www.freebsd.org? Maybe because
google indexes, whereas the FreeBSD web page search is searching the
documents themselves.
However there are threads on other groups (chat, recently) about
search services indexing the FreeBSD mailing list archives--something
about egroups on Yahoo.
Annelise
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