Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Don't reinvent wheel. Use what do you like. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:53 PM, trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I noticed the mailing list archives seem to have different levels of content or maybe search mechanism (more found in gmane than monkey.org). What do people think is the best one,

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread nixlists
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.

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
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

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Tomas Bodzar
It's simple if you want to know something about OpenBSD. Here is list : 1) Read FAQ 2) Read man if you can't find what you want (which is not possible, but some info is maybe too much technical) then : 3) Mail list archive - I use marc.info 4) IRC 5) Internet On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:43 PM,

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Bryan
On 3/4/2010 7:43 AM, nixlists wrote: 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. You could start your

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Bret S. Lambert
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

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread nixlists
mailing.openbsd.tech is on Google groups, I don't see mailing.openbsd.misc. Searching on Google groups works quite well, would be nice to see this list there.

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:43 AM, nixlists nixmli...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread nixlists
Odd. I search/browse a few months back into archive at least, and not because someone tells me to do it, and I still don't find answers sometimes (and searching still sucks, but ignore my whining).

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Diana Eichert
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Bryan wrote: On 3/4/2010 7:43 AM, nixlists wrote: 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

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread nixlists
Having contributed to MARC I think it's a pretty good site. Hank has also added lists, as in the PCC lists, when I requested. I didn't say MARC is a bad site.

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread nixlists
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 I like it as much as

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
2010/3/4 Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com: 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

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
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

Re: Best Mail Archive

2010-03-04 Thread Peter Miller
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:08 -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: 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