[Orca-users] Mailman Search ?

Liston Bias bias at pobox.com
Fri Jan 24 10:36:45 PST 2003



On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Sean O'Neill wrote:
> >
> > Hey Blair,
> >
> > You thought about adding a search capability for the mailing lists on
> > www.orcaware.com ?  Make browsing the archive easier at times looking for
> > something specific.
>
> Well, all those pages are generated by Mailman and aren't easily
> modified.  The best thing to do is to use the Google search page
> on the site:
>
> http://www.orcaware.com/search.html
>
> Unforuntately, there's no easy way to limit Google to search
> the portions of the site that have the mailing lists.

What if you created another subdomain for your mailing list?   Would
google be okay with just searching mailing list then?  This may not even
be an option for you.

I like the google search far and above over nothing, but still find myself
going back to yahoo to search old archive for answers as it focuses just
on mail.

- Liston

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