please enable search capability for maxima archives
Subject: please enable search capability for maxima archives
From: James Amundson
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:08:55 -0500
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> I visited the maxima archives located at
> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/ . I can see the archives,
> but I cannot search within the archive. Would it be possible for the
> maintainers to add a search functionality to this page?
Unfortunately, the utexas archives are not under my control. The two
suggestions for searching are useful, however:
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 16:23, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> I don't know how hard/easy it is to make pipermail queryable, but in
> the meantime, you can try a query like
>
> XXXXX site:www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima
>
> on your favorite search engine, where XXXXX is what you're looking
> for. This is not ideal -- it doesn't group by topic, allow sorting by
> date, etc., but it may be useful nonetheless.
>
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 21:17, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
> You can read and search the list (beginning with July 2002 ??) at
> http://gmane.org/
>
> Specifically,
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general
It would be very useful if someone would add these suggestions to our web pages.
--Jim