On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:25:34PM -0000, Richard Whitehead wrote: > Chris, > > As a new member to this list, I can tell you that searching for relevant old > content was effectively impossible, so I'm all for some way of doing that.
"Effectively impossible" is a gross exaggeration. The old mailman built-in search functionality is not fantastic, but it's not useless either, and more importantly, Google does a great job of indexing the archives. (I haven't tried it, but I expect Bing does too.) Very occasionally I find that Google's indexes may be off: in the past, if a post was deleted (a rare occurrence, but it did happen from time to time) it would force the remaining posts for that month to get new URLs. But I don't think that's a problem now, and as Google crawls the archives again that will slowly correct itself. Whereas for *me*, three quarters of the functionality on Github doesn't work at all. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
