[Python-ideas] Browser for mailing lists

[Richard Prosser]

I agree - links to search tools or at least explanations of how to use them
would be very welcome.

Better still I believe, abandon mailing lists altogether (because they can
clog up mail clients) and use forum/BB instead.


Richard


On 30 March 2014 05:02, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
>
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 3:08 PM
>
>
> > On 3/29/2014 4:54 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> >>  Richard Prosser <richard.prosser at mail.com> writes:
> >>
> >>>  I wanted to search this list (and other Python ones) but it is
> > practically
> >>>  impossible to do so.
> >>
> >>  The forum <URL:https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas>
> >>  has all its messages archived online for web browsing at
> >>  <URL:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/>.
> >>
> >>  So you can use any web search tool to search it. A good search engine
> >>  like DuckDuckGo will let you constrain the search to a particular
> subset
> >>  of the web:
> >>
> >>       site:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas foo bar baz
> >>
> >>>  So why not add a tool like http://markmail.org/search/?q=python to
> >>>  https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas or the like?
> >>
> >>  We have generally-appicable services that index the web and make much
> >>  better search tools. I don't often find a site's own custom search
> > tool
> >>  to be sufficiently better to use it, when DuckDuckGo is available.
> >
> > This list and many others are also available through, archived at, and
> > searchable at news.gmane.org.
>
>
> How hard would it be to add appropriate links (or, better, custom search
> boxes, or, worse but still helpful, a paragraph explaining how to search
> each of those manually) to the mailing list archive pages?
>
> For example, if you link to this:
>
>
> http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&fg=1&as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.python.org%2Fpipermail%2Fpython-ideas
>
>
> ... then people just need to fill in their search terms on the Advanced
> Search page that comes up.
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