On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 13:50:24 -0400 Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bill Davidson wrote: > > There's a search box at the top of the archive pages. That always > > works very well for me. > > Bill, > > Do you have some trick? It never works well for me -- I either get a > ton of hits (a pain to look through) or very few, and as often as not, > no hit in the archive. > > Try this: > > * go to, for example, > http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/newbie/2002-06/ > * copy the title of one of the emails into the search box (with or > without enclosing quotes) (I copied "enlarge a linux partition", an > email within the first 20 on that page.) > * view the results > > I never get a hit on an email that I *know* is there. I got the same result. However, you don't normally search based on the subject of the email. When I needed to get my sound card working, I did a search on the chip-set of my sound card: opl3sax. I think it helps to limit your search to as few words as possible. One word if you can. That seems to work better. Also, I use the mail-archive.com site. For example, here's where I would search the expert site: http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/ You can get there from the mandrake site, just above the links for mandrakes own archives. The search feature for the newbie site appears to be broken now though :( Bill
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