[BioC] searchable archives

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

I often wondered why does BioConductor and R-help searchable archives
are provided by different people (namely Robert King, Jonathan Baron and
Istvan Albert) when the archives themselves are hosted by Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology Zurich (thanks to Martin Maechler).

I did bit of googling and found that mailman itself (with a few hacks)
might have a built-in searching facility. Here is a thread from 2001
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2001-October/014338.html

Now the question is why is this feature enabled with R-help and
BioC-help ? Is it a tricky hack or search function does not work
properly or did I simply misunderstand the thread above ?

Thank you.

Regards, Adai



On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 17:07 -0500, Saurin D. Jani wrote:
> Dear BioC,
> 
> Searchable Archives helped me in troubleshooting and understading many 
> problems
> of BioC packages. This service is amazing for open source and open development
> software project. I like to think this service as "BioC InfoSquare".
> 
> I have found the searchable archives very helpfull and I would like to see the
> searchable archives continued.
> 
> Saurin
> 
> 
> Quoting Naomi Altman <naomi at stat.psu.edu>:
> 
> > I would like to see the searchable archive continued.
> > --Naomi
> >
> > At 01:16 PM 3/21/2006, Morten Mattingsdal wrote:
> >> Hi and sorry for posting off topic
> >> The person behind the searchable BioC archives has unfortunatly decided
> >> to shut down his service, because of lack of reponse by the core BioC
> >> commuity. I find this very unfortunate and hope a similar service pops
> >> up. I have found the searchable archives very helpfull in learning
> >> bioconductor packages, finding help and has lowered the steep R learning
> >> curve. Im sorry to se the searchable archives shut down, but thanks for
> >> making it in the first place. It centenly helped me alot
> >> regards
> >> morten
> >>
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