On 02/11/2012 03:56 AM, a.l.e wrote: > hi > >> Le 11/02/2012 06:59, Aleksander Kujbida a ?crit : >>> Hello, Will someone please tell me how to search the archive, so I >>> don't duplicate questions (although this is undoubtedly a >>> duplicate!). >> >> I favor the gmane search abilitie : >> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scribus >> Use the search box in the left column >> >> A part from searching the archives, gmane allows to read scribus >> mailgroups through newsgroups, without being subscribed. >> With newsgroups, there is no mail to store and delete locally. > > > generally speaking, just searching in google or any other search engine > for the wording of your question may already give you the answer you're > looking for. > > you can also use a search engine to crawl the official archives. in > google, the following query > > mailing list archives site:lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/ > > will search for the topic "mailing list archives" in the official > archives. > (ironically, in this case, the results are badly polluted by the mails > sent through nabble, another mailing list archiver! > > > personally, i would not make it too complicated: if you can't find an > answer through the your preferred search engine, just ask in here! >
If you find yourself doing this a lot, you can download and gunzip the monthly archives, then append them to one big file, which you could then search with something like grep or load into a browser and search that way. This way you can search not only Subject lines but content. Greg
