On 19/08/05, Ashar Voultoiz <hashar(a)altern.org> wrote:
Incidentally -
the gmane interface to the list looks as though it ought to be
great, but I find that, in addition to me finding it difficult to find the
relevant forums, it does not appear to do searches very well. Is that others'
experience as well, or am I just doing something wrong?
Maybe search is broken on gmane actually ? We do not manage that
service, so there is little for us to say about it :o)
An additional note on which, since this tends not to occur to people:
you can search the list archives using Google (or Yahoo! or whatever)
by restricting the search to the "mail.wikipedia.org" server, using
"site:mail.wikipedia.org" - e.g.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amail.wikipedia.org+archive+search
you can even restrict to one list, it seems, using
"site:mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l" - e.g.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amail.wikipedia.org%2Fpipermail%2Fmedi…
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Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]