how do I search the mailing list archive?

[Chris Mohler]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:04 PM, David Christensen
<dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> steve wrote:
>> from google type this in the search bar
>> site:lists.ubuntu.com
>> followed by your query on the same line
>
> Thanks for the reply.  :-)
>
>
> Yes, I'm aware of Google's "site:" syntax, but it's not as useful as a
> good built-in search engine:
>
>     http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+make+the+archives+searchable
>
>
> For example, I'm trying to figure out how to change the terminal server
> network address.  I've yet to construct a Google query that doesn't give
> me too many or too few hits:
>
>     site:lists.ubuntu.com "terminal server" change address
>
>     site:ubuntu.com allintitle: "terminal server"
>
>
> Also, I'd like to be able to sort the hits in reverse chronological
> order (perhaps there's a Google syntax for that?).
>
>
> http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advanced&hl=en
>
>     http://www.google.com/advanced_search
>
>
> I guess I'm making a feature request...

Have you tried searching via gmane's web site:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user

Chris