Search facility for the list archives?

[David Herron]

Volker Simonis wrote:
> Are there any plans for a search facility that can search all the
> mailing lists from java.net. I meanwhile counted 33 different lists
> and from the names it's not always clear where to look/post for a
> specific topic.
>
> I think providing a good search tool would greatly increase the
> usefullness of the lists alltogether and would reduce the burdon of
> double/cross posting.
>
> I also remember that I've already posted to discuss at openjdk on the 1st
> of March, however the current archives start from May only. Where have
> the old postings gone too?
>
> Regards,
> Volker
>   
Dunno about the old postings.. they were on differently implemented 
infrastructure.

It seems to me that going to google and entering:

    site:mail.openjdk.java.net search string

would be a very good way to handle this.  But there's a robot.txt saying 
otherwise...

     wget http://mail.openjdk.java.net/robots.txt

Yields:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

There must be a reason for this to which I'm not privy.  To me it makes 
absolute perfect sense to index this stuff because it's the search 
engines that draw the most traffic to a web site.

- David Herron

 
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