[TriLUG] Mail archives

[Owen Berry]

Thanks Jon and Aaron. That worked - it even found the discussion I was
thinking of.

-- Owen

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:14:51PM -0400, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> >Owen Berry wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I thought the mail archives were searchable. Am I incorrect, or has
> >>something changed?
> >>
> >When they moved over to the new server they used a stock Mailman install
> >without the HTDig mods. HTDig was the app used to auto index/search the
> >list archives.
> >
> >Still Google ranks Trilug fairly high on their searches, so you can use
> >a google search to look at the archives.
> >  
> >
> Another good trick is to google with a query string containing
> "site:trilug.org", which restricts matches to the trilug.org domain
> (who's primary content is the list archives that Google crawls).  That's
> often better than the HTDig search which used to be in place.  The HTDig
> was primarily useful for very recent postings which Google hadn't
> crawled yet.  The reason for dropping it was that those are patches that
> are not maintained in a Debian package (the distro that box is running),
> so it's rather inconvenient to keep the mailman package up to date.  If
> there's a sufficient out-cry about being able to use HTDig to search the
> archives, we may consider restoring that functionality, but be careful
> as considering it a critical feature may also be construed as
> volunteering to maintain that package.  :)
> 
> Aaron S. Joyner