On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 10:51, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:31 PM +0100 2004/02/09, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > >> Searchable Archives: > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > > > Unfortunately, the link to the maillists on www.lists.org doesn't point to > > that archive. Wouldn't it be much better to change that link to point to a > > searchable archive instead of having users subscribe to the list because > > they can't search for an answer? > > Yeah, we should ask Barry to get that part of the page updated. > > Sorry, I thought that link was already there. > > > Hm, looking at > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > I see that this archive is somewhat slow, it doesn't contain any messages > > newer than Feb 06 and a search produces an htdig error. > > I can confirm that there don't seem to be any messages there > newer than 6 Feb at the moment, but I don't get an htdig error when I > search.
www.mail-archive.com also gives me an htdig error. > > An alternative solution is to use Google, and add one of the > following tags to what you're searching for: > > inurl:www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > inurl:mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/ > > That way, you can search just about any archive of any public > mailing list, even if they don't have a separate search engine. What about pointing people to gmane? They have a nice little search box at the bottom of the page. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mailman.user -Barry ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
