From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27468 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2002 00:34:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27442 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2002 00:34:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO egil.codesourcery.com) (66.92.14.122) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 22 Dec 2002 00:34:16 -0000 Received: from zack by egil.codesourcery.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18Pu4D-0001Ae-00 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:34:05 -0800 To: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Just use google for archive searching? References: <20021220024950.GA9178@redhat.com> From: Zack Weinberg Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:29:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20021220024950.GA9178@redhat.com> (Christopher Faylor's message of "Thu, 19 Dec 2002 21:49:50 -0500") Message-ID: <87znqyx56q.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-q4/txt/msg00283.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor writes: > It seems like we might be able to just stop doing htdig and let google > do our archiving for us. I have thought of a technical reason why this is not a good idea. When I do site searches, it's always the mailing lists I'm searching, it's almost always for an exact string, and I want to see the results sorted by date. Google doesn't provide a convenient way to limit the search to just the mailing lists, nor to sort the results by date, and I'm not sure what their rules are regarding characters that can appear in strings. (The search I want boils down to recursive 'grep' -- regular expressions and all -- which htdig doesn't give me either, of course.) zw