[Zest-devel] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Pipermail replacement? Zest!

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 01:17:01AM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> >>>>> "JRM" == Jason R Mastaler
> >>>>> <jason-dated-1015370683.3dd5d0@mastaler.com> writes:
> 
>     JRM> barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:
> 
>     >> - searching <wink>
> 
>     JRM> This is the biggie IMHO.  Interface differences matter little
>     JRM> to me, but I find an unsearchable mailing list archive
>     JRM> practically worthless.
> 
> I'd love it if Zest (or Pipermail, for that matter) had integrated
> searching.  So would a lot of people.  But nobody's cared enough to
> code it and own it.

Searching doesn't belong inside of a list archiver that has a web
interface -- why do the same work twice?  There are half a dozen or
more web search engine packages which can be pointed at that interface,
right?

Not to mention Google, but we just finished that argument...

Cheers,
-- jra
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