[# 243] ;-)
Norman Vine wrote:
Boris Koenig writes:
[OT:]
(BTW: even without a locally installed search engine -several were suggested - for flightgear's mailing list archives on flightgear.org,
it would be nice if the addresses to mail-archive.com could be added to
http://www.flightgear.org/mail.html where you keep reading:
"There is currently no search capability [...]")
Bah....
please try this link
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Boris+site%3Aflightgear.org&btnG=Google+Search
Thanks for that one Norman - *really* helpful ! .... but:
1) This is _not_ about *my* postings ;-)
2) This is _not_ about *my* need for a search engine, I
happen to store everything within my mail client,anyway...So, I mentioned this only because this is obviously a questions that comes up relatively frequently - not so much on the devel-list, but rather on the user's list, if you don't believe me Norman, check the archives ;-)
Maybe you simply got me wrong, I certainly don't mean to be annoying by mentioning these things, or making offers such as setting up a dynamic FAQ system or BugZilla for Flightgear ...
Rather, I just think these things are part of being "user-friendly" - you may admit it or not, but you folks are mainly *developers* - not really *users* (at least when it comes to FG):
So your point of view is pretty likely to be different from that one of an average user, saying: what you consider ridiculous or rather self-explanatory may simply be _convenient_ for a *user*. And this does apply to MANY things, not only a webpage.
I don't think I need to go into more detail, tell me though - if you want me to ;-)
Of course updating such a section on a webpage would be simplified if the page was maintained by a simple CMS and not via CVS ... - where obviously only a minority of people has the access priviledges and _time_ to add things that others consider useful, you know - there were other suggestions, too - so I'm not the only one who likes to recommends one or two things ...
Anyway - if I'm not terribly wrong you should have CVS access, so maybe you can afford the time to apply the enclosed patch ;-)
Thanks & regards
--------- Boris
--- mail.html Sat Sep 18 20:00:34 2004
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@@ -100,11 +100,14 @@
FlightGear-FlightModel Archives</A>
<LI> <A HREF="http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users";>
FlightGear-Users Archives</A>
- <P>
+ <P><P>
+ You can search the archives by using:
+ <LI> <A
HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel%40flightgear.org/";>Mail-Archive.com
(flightgear-devel)</A>
+ <LI> <A
HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-users%40flightgear.org/";>Mail-Archive.com
(flightgear-users)</A><P>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/lists/fgfs/";>The Historic
FlightGear mailing lists archives</A>.
- <LI> There is currently no search capability that I know of, but I
- will investigate this.
+ <!--<LI> There is currently no search capability that I know of, but I
+ will investigate this.-->
</UL>
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