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
