On 12 June 2012 23:04, David Benfell <benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/12/12 01:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> The site: trick [1] has worked for me quite well for long time: >> >> "T400 site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/"; >> >> Jeremiah's pointed on two front-ends to the same data, best option >> I know too. It is not ideal in though, so it is not a problem to >> setup ML mirror on Gmane. Similarly, Nabble works fairly well as a >> Forum frontend to ML. [2] > > site: I knew about and is good if you know which site will have the > answer you're looking for. I don't always. Yes, this is true. In case of ML, it may be also related to some configuration of mailman. I found that the Google's site: trick does work pretty well with for example OSGeo Foundation mailing lists that I use extensively, e.g. https://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=jpeg+format+site%3Alists.osgeo.org%2Fpipermail%2Fgdal-dev%2F > Sometimes, I'll find > answers on the Ubuntu forums, for example, though I imagine this will > be less true in the future as Ubuntu seems to be going down the toilet > as a distribution. :-) > But what is 'T400'? Model of Lenovo ThinkPad T400 which I use. I used as example a needle being searched - as I've scanned the MLs for T400 infos lately :) Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
