[BioC] Re: Better mailing list archives {was "Searching BioC .."}

[Warnes, Gregory R]

Ahh.  Yet another added feature that I didn't notice...  Thanks Fritz.

-G

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at
> [mailto:Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 7:20 AM
> To: Warnes, Gregory R
> Cc: 'Martin Maechler'; Jeff Gentry; ESS-core at stat.math.ethz.ch;
> R-core at stat.math.ethz.ch; Bioconductor (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [BioC] Re: Better mailing list archives {was "Searching
> BioC .."}
> 
> 
> 
> Umm, that's already at the R homepgae for quite some time now ...
> 
> .f
> 
> >>>>> 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:&nbsp;&nbsp;</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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