Ubuntu Mailing List FAQs - It's Alive Igor!

[Thorny]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:09:40 -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
.[..]
> Amazing how much work that turned out to be :-(
> 

Someday people might thank you for your work, your intentions are
commendable.

> Let's try and help people out without being snarky about it, and still
> save time and aggravation answering the same old questions over and over
> again.
> 

It may take more than your effort to stop some people from being snarky,
it has been my experience that some people come here (and to all lists and
forums) specifically to be snarky. ;-)

>[..]
> PPS If you have any comments (other than 'you are nuts' - we've
> established that already) feel free to pass 'em along on or off list!

You may want to consider putting a form for archive search up, to make it
a bit easier for newbies. Something similar to this but I am not a website
coder, someone else, or you, can probably refine this (I haven't even
tested it):

[code]
<form
   action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get" id="google_general">
  <p>
    <input type="hidden" name="sitesearch"
value="lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/"/>
    <input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="256"
id="google_general-input" />
    <input type="submit" value="Search" />
  </p>
</form>
[/code]

If you do this, I'd suggest you also give a brief hint about how to choose
effective keywords.