[ic] Search on mail list

[David Totten]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:56:45AM -0700, JT Justman wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the alert. That was caused by an OpenSSL update breaking
> > Python, of all things. It is working now.
> >
> > Jon
> 
> I figured I'd just take this moment to point out that in many cases the mail
> list archive does not perform as I would expect. Once I was looking for a
> reply I recieved to a post some time ago, so I entered as the search spec
> the entire title "Multiple search criteria for advanced search" returns
> nothing when searched as a phrase, and nothing usefull when searched as any.
> Searching for more basic phrases (ie "advanced search") would not turn
> anything up. I concluded that the subject wasn't indexed, and copied some
> text from my original post: "specify multiple attributes". A little poking
> concluded that my post was not in the archive.
> 
> A whole lot of paging back manually through the indexes showed the the
> message, and reply, were indeed posted to the list. My post can be found at
> http://ic.redhat.com/archive/interchange-users/2001/mail23.html at the top
> of the page, and the reply on the previous (next chronologically) page near
> the bottom. I can see no reason why neither of these messages are
> searchable.
> 
> Many other searches for posts I recall having seen turn up blank. For
> example, one I have saved locally is titled "[ic] AOL 6 Users and
> Interchange" and I have been unable to find it with a search.

I did a search for AOL 6 Users and Interchange from www.redhat.com and the 
message you were looking for was returned. Their search engine results are
powered by google. Perhaps it would be easier if ic.redhat.com's search engine
was powered by google as well?

Dave Totten


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