Mailing List Archive Search

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 15:39:41 UTC 2009


> You may want to consider putting a form for archive search up, to make it
> a bit easier for newbies.
{snipped code suggestion}
> If you do this, I'd suggest you also give a brief hint about how to choose
> effective keywords.

That's a great idea.  Of course it is a wiki - you could do it too :-)

I can add the search links, I don't have any thoughts really about
keyword advise.

I took my own advise and searched the mailing list archives looking
for info on the best way to search the mailing list archives.
(recursion - in real life - how cool is that?)

I came up with three options:
* Google using the site: keyword -
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:lists.ubuntu.com
* Gmane  http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
* Nabble - which I couldn't get anything useful out of  (PEBKAC?)

Are there any other suggestions before I update the article?

Brian




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