[Wes Morgan]
| I must admit that I find such things rather frustrating when
| searching; wading through 500 hits from a single site is something
| of a waste, especially when they're actually intertwined as a
| discussion thread.
Well, then your search must be made more specific. Just "fvwm" gave me
"about 5000" hits. So I did (Alta Vista simple syntax)
"+title:fvwm -title:Mailing.List"
and got 146 hits. To exclude the _other_ (old?) fvwm mailing list
archives, I then refined it to
"+title:fvwm -title:Mailing.List -Prev.Next -Next.Index -date.thread"
(just keep that last bit around, it covers most archive software)
Now it's down to 73 hits, none of which are from mailing lists.
Admittedly, it would be nice if every list archive included a specific
keyword to make it more easy to exclude them...
Usually, I _am_ interested in searching list archives. Like yesterday,
when I was looking for experiences with CAP vs. netatalk on Solaris
2.5. It seems like several people feel after conducting my search on
the web, I should supplement it by first locating any relevant list
archives (sun-managers and cap-users), learning the more or less
baroque syntax for searching, and submit my query. I really prefer to
use one query, in one simple and powerful syntax.
There's one annoying thing about most list archives, though: They
usually contain "Next/Previous Message: topic here" at the bottom,
which gives two irrelevant hits for every relevant one.
Kjetil T.
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