On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:07, Tod Merley wrote: > Hi Anne! > > I have found it quite useful at times to have the FC list and Ubuntu list > (I am on both) in Gmail. I have been doing this for about a year, am using > only 4% of my limit (96MB of 2.7GB) but the search tool has been great when > I needed to find something pertaining to specific hardware or a subject > under study. > I do the same for some MLs where I don't want to read every day, but may well need to from time to time. Perhaps I should add FC to my googlemail collection :-) > In looking at how I might do spcifically what you asked, the only way I can > think of is to download the gunzips, extract, and run your favorite text > search tools on them. Kinda crude. > > I have found Google very useful finding info about specific hardware and > how they fare on distros. It helps to ask the question several differant > ways. "Dell Inspiron 8100 on Fedora Core" (try moving the words arround, > remove some words, add say "problems" or "installation" and take hints from > what you find). Alaways look at the date and context of what you find. > I've often found specific mails by googling. I'd just hoped for a better way. There may be more than one archive of the lists, too. I'll spend a few minutes this evening trying to find out. Some archives are easier to navigate than others. Anne
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