I too have often been frustrated with the on-line archive search capabilities. The suggestion below (search by yearly archive file) is useful only if the topic is discussed entirely within a year, and you know which year that was, and it was a year after 2005 (since years 2002-2005 show "Gzip'd Text 0 bytes").
A user who was desperate could download all the files, then import them into a local program (e.g., Mail on the Mac; what I did). That's a bit much to ask a casual user though, and there are those pesky missing years.
I wish we could implement one of these options:
* There are "packaged" solutions to work with Mailman, but some installation would be required.
* SWISH:
http://blog.anthonyrthompson.com/2010/07/listserv-to-mailman-setting-up-archive-search/
* combination of mhonarc (
http://www.mhonarc.org/) for browsing and htdig: (
http://www.htdig.org/) for searching
* Figure out why Google isn't searching/indexing everything
* Find another external search engine that does
If this is a reasonable request I can add it to the TRAC issues list.
John
On Sep 3, 2014, at 06:52, alison.pamment at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> Regarding searching the mailing list archives, if I want to find a very specific phrase within the email text I download the plain text file for the appropriate year (available from the main archive page http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/cf-metadata/) and use my browser's 'Find' function. It takes a few minutes to download but it can be a useful way of pinpointing the thing you're looking for.
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