[BioC] Re: Better mailing list archives {was "Searching BioC .."}
Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at
Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Oct 1 14:19:30 MEST 2003
Umm, that's already at the R homepgae for quite some time now ...
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>>>>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 07:02:21 -0400 ,
>>>>> Warnes, Gregory R (WGR) wrote:
> I find Google's site search the most effective way to search mail archives.
> I generally use the incantation (Example for R):
> site:r-project.org search terms here
> to search the entire site, including email.
> To make this easier, and to share this trick with others, I've often wanted
> to have a search box on bioconductor.org and r-project.org.
> So, here's a simple form does the trick for r-project.org:
> <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
> <tr valign="baseline">
> <td>
> <font color="#990033">
> <i>Search terms: </i>
> </font>
> </td>
> <td nowrap>
> <form action="http://www.google.com/search" method=get>
> <input type=text value="site:r-project.org" name="q"
> style="display:none">
> <input type=text value="" name="q" size=25>
> <nobr>
> <input name=btnG type=submit value="Google Search">
> </nobr>
> </form>
> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> The obvious change makes it work for bioconductor.
> -Greg
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Martin Maechler [mailto:maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:33 AM
>> To: Jeff Gentry
>> Cc: ESS-core at stat.math.ethz.ch; R-core at stat.math.ethz.ch; Bioconductor
>> (E-mail)
>> Subject: [BioC] Re: Better mailing list archives {was "Searching BioC
>> .."}
>>
>>
>> >>>>> "JeffG" == Jeff Gentry <jgentry at jimmy.harvard.edu>
>> >>>>> on Wed, 1 Oct 2003 01:25:22 -0400 (EDT) writes:
>>
>> >> Is there a search facility for the past BioConductor
>> mails similar to
>> >> R's search engine (eg http://www.google.com/u/newcastlemaths) ?
>>
JeffG> Nope.
>>
JeffG> If someone wants to provide said capability, it would
JeffG> be awfully nice of them :)
>>
>> yes, in any case/
>>
JeffG> Until then we have the archive, but as you noted
>> there is no search
JeffG> capability built in.
>>
>> As mailing list site manager, I have recently e-talked with
>> some mailman developers about other problems with the simple
>> pipermail archiving {which is builtin default for mailman lists}.
>>
>> Some then mentioned the possibility of using MHonARC instead of
>> pipermail. But first, we'll definitely have a (minor) upgrade
>> of mailman itself. Then I might have a look into using
>> alternatives to pipermail. If someone has experience or
>> valuable information here, I'd be glad.
>>
>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
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