How to sp.. => mailing list searching
Chris Green
chris at areti.co.uk
Fri Jun 3 16:29:23 CEST 2005
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:12:48PM +0200, Auke Kok wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> >By the way does anyone else find the search facilities on the xfce
> >mailing lists completely useless? I tried to search and see if I had
> >asked this question before but there was no way I could find anything
> >remotely useful.
> >
>
> use google to search the mailman archives: Type the following in the
> search bar:
>
> "site:foo-projects.org/pipermail" "searchwords"
>
> that should work sufficiently. You can even search specifically per list
> that way.
>
Isn't that what the search at:-
http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=mailinglists&lang=en
does for you anyway? It seems to if you leave the "Search mailing
lists archives" button set.
However if I search for "Chris Green" for example it finds nothing and
I've definitely posted here a few times over the years!
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Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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