Search facility for the list archives?

[Volker Simonis]

It would be probably a good idea to put a link to
http://gmane.org/find.php?list=openjdk on the main mailing list page
at http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo and probably also a
corresponding link on the page of each list (e.g.
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss) for people
(like me) that didn't knew gmane.

Maybe a small input form with a "Search at gmane" button below the "To
see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the discuss
Archives"-line would be even more usefull?

Volker

On 8/16/07, Peter B. Kessler <Peter.Kessler 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
>
>
> I thought we were depending on
>
>      http://gmane.org/
>
> for searching.  Though, I don't see a way to search a group of
> lists, e.g., at
>
>      http://gmane.org/find.php?list=openjdk
>
> but maybe I just don't know the syntax.  I also find that while
> I can't find your message by searching for "search facility" on
>
>      http://search.gmane.org/?query=%22search+facility%22&group=gmane.comp.java.openjdk.general
>
> I can find your message by asking for all the topics from that
> list and then choosing
>
>      http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openjdk.general/383
>
> Searching for "volker" turns up messages from 2007-03-01 through
> 2007-08-09, so maybe they are just behind in their indexing.
>
>                         ... peter
>