Why I see certain messages from mailing list not ordered corectly by thread
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Jul 9 08:16:49 UTC 2006
On Saturday 08 July 2006 22:15, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Archives are not always easy to search.
>
> I agree that it could be improved. The default mailman generated
> archives have no search feature at all, which is something that's
> frequently requested on the mailman-users list.
>
> One way that the mailman-users list helps direct list members to a
> good archive search is by including it in the footer for each message:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Mailman-Users mailing list
> Mailman-Users at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
> Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
> Searchable Archives:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe:
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/tmz%40pobox.com
>
> It might be helpful if something similar was added to the fedora-list
> footer, or at least to the listinfo page so that new users could find
> it easier.
>
Absolutely. That 'Searchable Archives' link would be invaluable.
> Another handy trick you can use with google that many people may not
> be aware of is to use the inurl tag. To search this list using
> google, you could add this to your query:
>
> inurl:www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/
>
I'll try that.
> Of course, adding a link to search and read the archives doesn't mean
> that most people will bother to do so before posting. Unfortunately.
>
No, especially complete newbies, but it would be a great help to those of us
that do know and try to find things.
Anne
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