On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 11:33:55AM +0000, adr wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2022, Paul Ripke wrote: > > Odd question, but what do people use to search the mail-index.netbsd.org > > archives? I went looking for a specific email that I knew existed, and > > I always delete mails if they are archive elsewhere and save the > ones I have some interest just for a while, so I don't use local > management tools. The problem with common search engines is that > they found what they have found already before (or what others have > found before, specially google and bing). BSD's lists (and others) > are archived in marc.info, mail-archive.com, &c. When you make a > search, the search is done on an archive of the mailing list, not > in a humongous database created by web crawlers and who knows what > nowdays, so the results are pretty good. I prefer marc, give it a > try. > > adr.
Thanks! That's what I was after - marc.info looks quite usable. A few years ago, I was tempted to write my own, probably one of those pandemic projects that never happened. I think I also used to use news.gmane.org, but it's MIA. I also used to generally only keep interesting emails, but given the poor state of archives (and not knowing those two) I started keeping everything. -- Paul Ripke "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- Disputed: Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. 1948.