does a searchable database of this mailing list exist?

• Subject: does a searchable database of this mailing list exist?
• From: Stavros Macrakis
• Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 13:01:27 -0500

> On 11/5/11, Ether Jones <maxima at etherjones.us> wrote:
>> Are all of the posts to this mailing list stored on a server somewhere?

http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/

>> Are they in a database that can be searched by posting date, author,
>> subject, and body, using boolean logic?

On Google, use [site:www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/ TOPIC],
e.g. postings
about gfactor<https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/+gfactor>;.
 This is not a fancy parametric search, but regular Google keyword search
which of course supports AND/OR/NOT, e.g. [site:
www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/ (factor OR gfactor)  -integrate]
finds postings which mention factor or gfactor, but not
integrate<site:www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/ (factor OR
gfactor) -integrate>
.

To search by date, I do *not* recommend Google's date searching feature,
which seems to over-restrict the result set.  But adding a year to the
search can be helpful, e.g.
[site:www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/TOPIC 2011] or [site:
www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/ TOPIC 2011 OR 2010].

            -s

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