>From: Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>No. Pipermail doesn't have native search capabilities. Someone asked about
>this just now in the newbie list, actually. Interesting that both of you
>are interested in the same thing.

A search capability would be a nice feature.  For example, if you
were interested in finding out about something - or were looking for
answers from the PLUG archive - you have to wade through all the
threads - the January 2002 archive alone is 300+KB gzipped - so
how large would that be gunzipped?

It's good that somebody was asking about the search capability
from the newbie list.  Maybe it means they were looking for answers.
One of the proper behavior in mailing lists is to first search the
mailing list archive (if existing) before posting a question to the
mailing list.  This saves time/effort/resources for the subscribers
of the mailing list as the question might have been already answered
before.

BTW, I'm not subscribed to the PLUG newbie list - neither to the
other PLUG lists (org, etc.)  I'm just subscribed to the main PLUG
mailing list.  The posts from the PLUG list already fills up my
Hotmail account.  There are times when I could not read email from
my Hotmail account (busy) and days later I found out that my
account has already exceeded its quota.  What I do is delete mails
from the mailing lists without reading them.  Then I just read from
the archives when I do have the extra time.



Regards,

--
Joshua L. San Juan  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>






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