On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:50:59AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Andreas Eibach wrote: >>This is VERY bad. You can only search for "Apache and 2 and 0 and 54", >>but not for apache and 2.0.54 (read 2 dot 0 dot 54 _in this order_). >>Quotes aren't accepted either; I think as the mailing lists archives >>are that important and used so much, there should at least be an exact >>match. No user wants to delve through 500 or 1000 messages with 450 or >>950 of them irrelevant. (Rant over.) > >The htdig on cygwin.com is pretty bad. I always use google to search >the archives. You can do this easily with a query of:
Suggestions for improving ht::dig's configuration on sourceware.org are always welcome over at overseers at sourceware dot org. >site:cygwin.com inurl:cygwin inurl:ml <query words here> > >You can even use more "inurl:"s to restrict by year/month since those >are part of the URL. In addition, the list is archived at many other >places, all of which have searches. Three that come to mind are >gmane.org, marc.theaimsgroup.com, and mail-archive.com. I'm glad that someone finally suggested this. I think a few more messages along these lines would have surely kick started a mean response from me. Maybe google wasn't around in B19 days... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
