On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Mark Constable wrote: >> The new LA archives can be found at <http://lalists.stanford.edu/>. Yes, we were going to announce this a bit later, but yup, it's true, the archives have been succesfully moved to their new home! :) Only thing still left to do is to update the links at linuxdj.com. > Thanks but I'm not sure that is going to help me all that > much because it looks like it specifically searches thru > the Finnish Google site... Oops, sorry about that. :) I'm used to the Finnish google.fi URL, and that slipped in by accident. The page is now fixed and submits the searches to google.com, which is probably the correct default behaviour. > Hakusi - site:lalists.stanford.edu usb-asx2y - ei vastaa yht??n sivua. > > Is there an archive around that actually indexes the > messages themselves ? Not that I'm aware of. We used to have a dedicated htdig search, but I'm not able to provide this service anymore (still a web based search, not limiting to message contents). And even if someone would offer to host the htdig service, I'm not volunteering for the job. :) Keeping the dedicated search up and running (and debugging why certain searches don't work as expected) can be a bit of a burden, so relying on google.com, search.msn.com (both of which have already crawled the whole new lalists site) and other competitors seems like a nice option to me. PS If you do put up your own archive sites, please apply some anti-spam measures to the email addresses before putting them online (and especially if you put whole mboxes online). The current mailman archives (only replacing @ with " at ") are already an easy target for address harvesters. In the current archive at lalists.stanford.edu, I've chosen to hide the tail of email addresses completely to make sure no automated script can harvest subscriber addresses. This only applies to newer messages, older ones are protected by a weaker mechanisms (similar to the default mailman obfuscation). -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!
