Search facility for the list archives?

[Volker Simonis]

On 8/15/07, David Herron <David.Herron at sun.com> wrote:
>
>  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
>

Hopefully, it is not because the responsible admins are still not sure
if the current infrastructure is the final one :)