Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > On Tuesday, 6 Sep 2016 at 11:07, Charles Millar wrote: >> The mail list search has been broken for more than one year (close to >> two). I and others have asked that it be repaired and nothing has >> happened! > > Are you sure it's been broken that long? I don't use it often but I > thought I used it more recently than that. Oh well, doesn't matter; > just curious. The key is that it's broken now but at least there are > alternatives. >
I'm not sure whether Charles is referring to Gmane search or the lists.gnu.org search: I understood it to be the latter. If he indeed means the latter, I can agree that it seems broken. It might just be that the index is not being rebuilt regularly, or there might be some deeper problem, but I have found it to be unusable. Gmane (while it was still alive) broke a few times but it was always repaired fairly quickly (I nagged Lars a couple of times about it, so I may have indirectly contributed to him giving up in disgust ;-) ). Now that Gmane is being resurrected[1], I hope that things will be more or less back to normal in fairly short order. [1] see another post of mine in this thread - although bear in mind that my posts seem to take 12 hours to appear on the list; no idea why. -- Nick