[Orca-users] Mailman Search ?

[Blair Zajac]

Liston Bias wrote:
> 
> 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.

The best solution would be for Mailman itself to provide a search,
since it already manages all of the email.

Blair

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