-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: > Archives are not always easy to search. I agree that it could be improved. The default mailman generated archives have no search feature at all, which is something that's frequently requested on the mailman-users list. One way that the mailman-users list helps direct list members to a good archive search is by including it in the footer for each message: - ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@xxxxxxxxxx http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/tmz%40pobox.com It might be helpful if something similar was added to the fedora-list footer, or at least to the listinfo page so that new users could find it easier. Another handy trick you can use with google that many people may not be aware of is to use the inurl tag. To search this list using google, you could add this to your query: inurl:www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ > I've often had better luck just googling and reading anything I can > find related to the problem, regardless of which distro. Yeah, me too. That works wonders for problems that are more than a few hours or days old. It doesn't help so much when the issue is multiple people asking a question that's been asked and answered several times in the past day, much as the recent threads on the various packages with broken dependencies. Of course, adding a link to search and read the archives doesn't mean that most people will bother to do so before posting. Unfortunately. That's why acronyms like GIYF and RTFM have become so popular. ;-) - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), "A Message to Garcia" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iG0EARECAC0FAkSwIIMmGGh0dHA6Ly93d3cucG9ib3guY29tL350bXovcGdwL3Rt ei5hc2MACgkQuv+09NZUB1oH7wCgpbLD0hLKoz6UKgnfkg6nMUk8lXUAn2rXKO+p WgM8fhegy/RTu+L9J+1j =sEYA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
