Don't Waste Time on Fedora Mailing List Archive Searches - Search Engine Broken
David Curry
dsccable at comcast.net
Wed Mar 9 00:20:09 UTC 2005
Subject thread says it all.
The basis for my assertion is many experiences trying to find
information in fedora archives. Today, I made notes of steps in trying
to find information in fedora-config-list archives and conducting
quite a few searches for messages dealing with pup. I asked for
searches on all sections, on keywords, on title, and on body. I asked
for searches of the entire archive and for searches on a couple of
individual months. In every case the result was the same - 0 hits. I
searched on pup + yum and again 0 hits on pup with a few hits on yum.
I googled "pup front-end for yum" and got lots of hits, including some
news reader services like gmane (I did not look on gmane itself) where I
was able to retrieve and read some fedora-config-list messages posted in
January 2005. Then I returned to redhat fedora-config-list archive
page, selected January 2005 display by thread and searched for the
specific subject thread I had just read. You guessed it!! Zero hits
even though it was the seventh message presented as I scrolled down the
page.
The Red Hat archive search engine is broken, broken, broken.
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