| Bill Jonas on Mon, 31 Dec 2001 14:40:18 +0100 |
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:46:26AM -0500, William Shank wrote: > is there any way to search the mailing list archives? i'm prety sure that > my question has been brought up before. I'd suggest using Google. You can restrict it to a certain site with the "site:" directive. Suppose you wanted to search for the word "printer" in the archives. You can enter 'printer site:lists.phillylinux.org' and Google will return all pages that it knows about on lists.phillylinux.org containing the word "printer". '"printer problems" site:.phillylinux.org' searches for the exact string "printer problems" on any machine in the phillylinux.org domain. Darxus or I could add a text box on the main page to do this automatically, if there's interest... (BTW, I don't know how others do it, but when I'm talking about strings to enter in a search engine, I use single quotes to delimit what's entered, and double quotes only for things that should be double-quoted *in the search engine*. So leave off the single quotes but enter double quotes where appropriate (ie, you want to search on an exact phrase).) -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ Developer/SysAdmin for hire! See http://www.billjonas.com/resume.html Attachment:
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