Gerald D. Neale on Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:00:18 +0100 |
The PLUG mailing list archives are here :) http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/pubarchive/plug/ Jerry --- Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com> wrote: > 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 part 2 application/pgp-signature ===== The Cherry hill Linux User's Group meets on the first Monday of every month. http://www.chlug.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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