Don't Waste Time on Fedora Mailing List Archive Searches - Search Engine Broken

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:20 -0500, David Curry wrote:
> 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.

And this is why I use google to search the archives instead. Just add
the name of the list as an additional search term in google.

For example, I googled for:

fedora-config-list pup

and the thread you mentioned came up as the third hit.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>