[PW] Re: Archive Searching

[Iris Jastram]

You could also get Google to power your search box by tweaking the 
Search within Site code that lives here: 
http://services.google.com/searchcode2.html?accept=on#both .  That would 
accomplish the same thing as doing the limited advanced search.

Iris

John Franklin wrote:

>A small announcement: the archives are now kinda-sorta-searchable.
>
>Somebody e-mailed me today to ask how to search the archives. I gave  
>them the usual answer, which is "Mailman doesn't do that, but you can  
>have Google restrict its search to the Project Wombat list server and  
>get effectively the same result." (Incidentally, Google's results pop  
>up a lot faster for me than Listserv's used to when this was  
>Stumpers, although that may just be because there aren't so many  
>messages yet.)
>
>In any case, about an hour later, I thought "wait, I should be able  
>to set up some sort of search function on the web page". After some  
>trial and error (why did I try to use Javascript at first?) I am  
>pleased to say that the list subscription management pages now have  
>search forms on them. So go to
>
>http://lists.project-wombat.org/mailman/listinfo/project-wombat
>
>http://lists.project-wombat.org/mailman/listinfo/project-wombat-fm
>
>or
>
>http://lists.project-wombat.org/mailman/listinfo/project-wombat-open
>
>and use the forms to perform searches. (Or, if Google gets ornery and  
>blocks searches, you can follow the instructions and link given to do  
>the same thing manually.)
>
>-John Franklin
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