Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:27:29 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is the mailing list search system broken? Message-ID: <20030706192729.B4073@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3F059A3A.60309@potentialtech.com>; from wmoran@potentialtech.com on Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:16:10AM -0400 References: <20030704144055.GA31654@teddy.fas.com> <3F059A3A.60309@potentialtech.com>
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On 2003-07-04 11:16:10 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > 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) > > I've cc'd the webmaster and doc@ as I have yet to see any response that > anyone is looking in to this. It's quite possible that the folks > responsible for this have yet to be alerted to the breakage. If fixing > the general search page will take some time, I'd be willing to generate > a patch to redirect users from that page to individual search pages for > the lists. hi, the search seems to work again after the weekly rebuild of the mailing list index. I don't know why it was broken ... -Wolfram -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org
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