[Orca-users] Mailman Search ?

[Sean O'Neill]

At 10:43 AM 1/24/2003 -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
>Sean O'Neill wrote:
> >
> > At 12:27 PM 1/24/2003 -0600, Sean O'Neill wrote:
> > >At 10:26 AM 1/24/2003 -0800, 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.
> > >
> > >Ahhh, forgot about that. Thx.
> >
> > Not sure how Google works but what about this.  You have the subversion
> > stuff on its own subdomain within orcaware.com, specfically
> > svn.orcaware.com.  Your search page has search selections for
> > www.orcware.com, svn.orcaware.com, and Everything.
> >
> > Why not put the mailing list stuff under mailman.orcaware.com ?  Could
> > Google then be modified to search under that subdomain specifically ?  Not
> > sure how Google search works though.
> >
> > This would seem to give some capability to search only the mailing lists as
> > a whole at least - just not individual months but this is a start.
> >
>
>There's several things here that I'm thinking of.  One is my site
>popularity as ranked by Google.  I understand to have a better site
>ranking, to have more articles on the main site.  So moving mail
>to mailman.orcaware.com would take away from this.

I think you could play games with this.  It would be ugly though I think.

You could have mailman.orcaware.com as a seperate DNS subdomain but in 
Apache this is simply a virtual host whose docroot points to 
<docroot>/mailman/listinfo.  This would still be in your current 
www.orcaware.com stuff so Google should still browse all the way down into 
the mailman stuff keeping your ranking up.

>My other thought is that there may not be too much non mail content
>on www.orcaware.com so that searching for stuff on the site will
>end up searching the Mailman archives.  Is this a fair assessment
>for those that do searching?

I think you're right here.  Not worth the effort.


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Sean O'Neill