searching FBSD Questions News Group.
The google search system stopped archiving FBSD news groups at the start of 2002, so google search is useless. The FBSD org site has an archives search which is very out of date and the format in which the info is presented makes it next to useless. This is the best FBSD newsgroup search engine I have found http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ Here is the guy who is running the site. Vlad Shabanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] He has posted many times to the questions list telling readers about his FBSD archive search engine. Question. Is the official FreeBSD Questions News Group search http://minnie.tuhs.org/BSD-info/bsdnews_search.html which is found at the FreeBSD.org site ever going to be upgraded into something more useful? As it is now, it's so primitive, and so very un-user-friendly. Why are the posted messages displayed with their complete headers? Useless info for someone searching for answers to their FBSD problems. The http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ site is head and shoulders better than what the FreeBSD.org site currently has. Is there some way to get the FreeBSD.org site to change to use this new site? What other search engines are readers of the mailing list using? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: searching FBSD Questions News Group.
Scoot You should look closer at what google found. Not one of those hits is from the FreeBSD-Questions NG. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=FBSD_Userie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8hl=en; btnG=Google+Search Looks like all the hits come from lucky-freebsd.questions. This is not the official FBSD questions NG. I emailed google and asked them, and that is the answer they gave me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Mitchell Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:51 AM To: fbsd_user Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: searching FBSD Questions News Group. On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:40:16AM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: The google search system stopped archiving FBSD news groups at the start of 2002, so google search is useless. Really? A Google Groups search for your email address brings up a bunch of posts to freebsd-questions, written this year, at the top of the list. The Rambler site looks pretty good though, and I agree that it would be nice if the 'official' search worked a bit better. I seem to recall that someone was working on a replacement for it, they even put up an early version for people to play with, probably about a year ago now. Whatever happened to that? Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: searching FBSD Questions News Group.
Went back to http://www.freebsd.org/search/index.html And I see that the last entry ' Freebsd mail archives search' now points to http://freebsd.rambler.ru/ So it looks like the FBSD handbook has been updated to go to this new site. And it looks like the lucky.freebsd.questions NG is being populated with the questions mailing list archives. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of fbsd_user Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:09 AM To: Scott Mitchell Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: RE: searching FBSD Questions News Group. Scoot You should look closer at what google found. Not one of those hits is from the FreeBSD-Questions NG. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=FBSD_Userie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8hl=en; btnG=Google+Search Looks like all the hits come from lucky-freebsd.questions. This is not the official FBSD questions NG. I emailed google and asked them, and that is the answer they gave me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Mitchell Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:51 AM To: fbsd_user Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: searching FBSD Questions News Group. On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:40:16AM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: The google search system stopped archiving FBSD news groups at the start of 2002, so google search is useless. Really? A Google Groups search for your email address brings up a bunch of posts to freebsd-questions, written this year, at the top of the list. The Rambler site looks pretty good though, and I agree that it would be nice if the 'official' search worked a bit better. I seem to recall that someone was working on a replacement for it, they even put up an early version for people to play with, probably about a year ago now. Whatever happened to that? Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching FBSD Questions News Group.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:08:56AM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: Scoot You should look closer at what google found. Not one of those hits is from the FreeBSD-Questions NG. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=FBSD_Userie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8hl=en; btnG=Google+Search Looks like all the hits come from lucky-freebsd.questions. This is not the official FBSD questions NG. I emailed google and asked them, and that is the answer they gave me. OK, you got me :-) However, it's finding posts on newsgroups that mirror the freebsd-questions mailing list, which amounts to the same thing, right? Was there ever an 'official FBSD questions NG?'? comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce are still around and being archived, but I didn't know there was ever anything under comp.* that mirrored the questions mailing list. I could be wrong though... Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
