From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Feb 1 22:11:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F74037B400 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:11:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA44600; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:10:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:10:32 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Les Lytollis Cc: "Freebsd-Newbies (E-mail)" Subject: RE: first post In-Reply-To: <0F59E973A6C7D511886F00508BFC92971618B0@DBYEXCH1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message