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

[G. Richard Bellamy]

GOOGLE: "site:fsck.com [SEARCH CRITERIA]", or "site:lists.fsck.com
[SEARCH CRITERIA]"

This is my favorite way to search the mail archives.


G. Richard Bellamy
mailto:rbellamy at pteradigm.com
V:707-869-3665


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Murphy [mailto:murphy at genome.chop.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 12:16 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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