On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:53 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 22, 2004, Jonathan Rawle <jr36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Also, I do wish people would stop replying to messages telling people to > > search the archive rather than answering questions. In the time you've > > written than, you could in many cases answer the question, and you're > > generating just as many messages to the groups with the negative reply. If > > you don't want to answer, write nothing. > > Most often you remember the answer is in the archives, but don't have > a pointer handy. Are you suggesting I should have to do more effort > to find the exact location of the answer, instead of just letting the > person know where it is? I.e., give them the fish instead of teaching > them to fish? Good point. Has anyone seen a good howto/tutorial on searching mail archives, aside from various posts in the archive with bits/pieces? It is a bit of an art, the redhat tool is brain-dead, gmane is marginally better, and google is between tricky and drinking-from-a-firehose. Phil
