From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 5 15:22:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D53837B401 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA91243F3F for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:22:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-17 (dyn205.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.205]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 15:22:07 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 15:22:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20030704190049.ACFB037B404@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-ID: <20030705222207077.AAA1130@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Subject: Re: Is the mailing list search system broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 22:22:15 -0000 > Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:16:10 -0400 > From: Bill Moran > > stan wrote: > > I can't seem to get any results, no matter what I search for. > > > > Is this broken? > > It certainly appears so ... your email is about the fifth complaining > of this in the last 48 hours. > > A few temporary workarounds are: > 1) Go to the mailman home page for the particular list you want to > search and use that local search. For example: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ > 2) Use the advanced search on a search engine (such as google) Long ago I stopped bothering much with the mailing list search function on the freebsd.org page because it was never good enough to find what I wanted, and the list archives were not readable by thread. (finally when they switched to Mailman, you can read archives by thread) Same goes for some of the most common list archive sites - ie geocrawler - no threaded reading, and no search at all! So personally I got in the habit of using groups.google.com when I want to do a search of the FreeBSD lists. Their search facility is superior, I limit the newsgroups to "*freebsd*", and it will return results from the usenet groups which are gatewayed from the mailing lists (a small subset admittedly, but questions@ is one of them), and also the usenet groups which are separate from the mailing lists. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium