please enable search capability for maxima archives



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