On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:08 -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 03:23:24PM +0100, Bret S. Lambert wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:56:00AM -0300, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: > > > 2010/3/4 nixlists <nixmli...@gmail.com>: > > > > Every time someone tells me to go search an archive, I want to use > > > > profanity. They never think of just how painful mail archive searching > > > > is, but I guess we all have to bite the bullet and use search systems > > > > that are bad at searching. > > > > > > > > > > Do you realize how painful it is to answer the same question over and > > > over ? > > > > > > > Of course not! He can't find that thread!!! > > But has a point. Mail archives are dead as an interface. Google > knows all. We should be asking 'Did you ask Google?' rather than > 'Did you search the mail archives.' I'm sure many people have to > go Google 'mail archives' to figure out what they are anyway. :-). > > .... Ken > you can use google to search the archives
put site:http://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/ your search into the google search bar That will use the gmane archive and the power of google. using gmane Searched gmane.gmane.os.openbsd.misc for current ports Around 825 matching articles. Results 1-10. 75,674,724 articles searched in 1.296083 seconds. using google Results 1 - 10 of about 2,250 from www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org for current ports. (0.15 seconds) not really sure if it's better, but it's possible. The top 10 results are slightly different. -- Later Peter
