[rt-users] mailing list archive list search slow, etc

[Aleš Sušnik]

Very useful link for search RT archives:

http://marc.free.net.ph/mindex/rt-users@20380101.000000.00000000.xml

and/or http://marc.free.net.ph/splash/index.xml

A.

-----Original Message-----
From: rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com [mailto:rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com]
On Behalf Of Kevin Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:16 PM
To: rt-users at lists.fsck.com
Subject: [rt-users] mailing list archive list search slow, etc


1) I'm not finding the list archive search 
(http://lists.fsck.com/search.html) to be very helpful, because 
virtually all of the hits are for entire monthly archives, and on 
average, over the past few days, it takes several minutes to download 
one of these.  Is the host machine suffering, or is the per-user 
bandwidth being throttled?   I have an institutional broadband 
connection, and nothing else is slow for me.  I bet lots of people are 
doing what I do, starting a few searches and eventually giving up in 
frustration, meanwhile having socked the machine with several large 
requests.

2) Not that this matters, but the images used in the htsearch output 
page are broken.

3) The search query uses conventions I am not familiar with, and there 
is no help link describing the usage.  As a result, the odds of a 
monthly archive actually containing what I am looking for tend to be 
extremely low, meaning I go back for another one, and the machine 
groans on ....

Because of the speed problem, I plan to download the full raw archives 
at http://lists.fsck.com/pipermail/rt-users/, etc and search locally.

Because of these issues, it would be nice if the various piper and 
mailman pages linked to each other to make it as easy as possible for 
people to find what they need.

Thanks,
Kevin Murphy

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