I too have often been frustrated with the on-line archive search capabilities. The suggestion below (search by yearly archive file) is useful only if the topic is discussed entirely within a year, and you know which year that was, and it was a year after 2005 (since years 2002-2005 show "Gzip'd Text 0 bytes").
A user who was desperate could download all the files, then import them into a local program (e.g., Mail on the Mac; what I did). That's a bit much to ask a casual user though, and there are those pesky missing years. I wish we could implement one of these options: * There are "packaged" solutions to work with Mailman, but some installation would be required. * SWISH: http://blog.anthonyrthompson.com/2010/07/listserv-to-mailman-setting-up-archive-search/ * combination of mhonarc (http://www.mhonarc.org/) for browsing and htdig: (http://www.htdig.org/) for searching * Figure out why Google isn't searching/indexing everything * Find another external search engine that does If this is a reasonable request I can add it to the TRAC issues list. John On Sep 3, 2014, at 06:52, [email protected] wrote: > Regarding searching the mailing list archives, if I want to find a very > specific phrase within the email text I download the plain text file for the > appropriate year (available from the main archive page > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/) and use my browser's > 'Find' function. It takes a few minutes to download but it can be a useful > way of pinpointing the thing you're looking for.
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