"Raymond Zeitler" <zei...@yahoo.com> writes: > When attempting to use the mailing list search tool on Worg, the web browser > says: > > "search.gmane.org’s server DNS address could not be found." > > Here's a link to the Worg page with the search button: > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-mailing-list.html > > Gmane went down last summer, changed hands and has not been completely resurrected yet: the nntp portion works but the search capability is not. See
http://home.gmane.org/ Disappointingly, there has been no update since last September. > Why does it search gmane and not the archives on list.gnu.org? > IME, searching list.gnu.org is an exercise in frustration. I think the hope was that gmane search would be back shortly, but that increasingly looks like a pipe dream. FWIW: Although I read the mailing list through the gmane newsgroup, I did not turn off the mailing list completely: I subscribe to the digests which I save locally. That's what I use for searching. -- Nick
