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Re: [PLUG] searchable archives?
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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
>
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