From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Millar Subject: Re: mailing list search given problems with gmane? Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:32:57 -0400 Message-ID: <732f848d-4a11-fdab-493d-93974b890f97@verizon.net> References: <87zinmtkfd.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <17f223308c1a4cffa968f40fee5a627f@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> <87eg4xtuav.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87mvjlrwix.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87poof8lso.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhlPX-0002Ow-9G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:33:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhlPU-0001lm-38 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:33:39 -0400 Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.13]:38512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhlPT-0001f5-UO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 18:33:36 -0400 Received: from vz-proxy-l005.mx.aol.com ([64.236.82.152]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0OD5004I5NYY8B10@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:32:58 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: <87poof8lso.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 09/07/2016 05:03 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> On Tuesday, 6 Sep 2016 at 11:07, Charles Millar wrote: >>> The mail list search has been broken for more than one year (close to >>> two). I and others have asked that it be repaired and nothing has >>> happened! >> Are you sure it's been broken that long? I don't use it often but I >> thought I used it more recently than that. Oh well, doesn't matter; >> just curious. The key is that it's broken now but at least there are >> alternatives. >> > I'm not sure whether Charles is referring to Gmane search or the > lists.gnu.org search: I understood it to be the latter. If he indeed > means the latter, I can agree that it seems broken. It might just be > that the index is not being rebuilt regularly, or there might be some > deeper problem, but I have found it to be unusable. Yes I did mean lists.gnu.org. Since April 2015, at least, I have occasionally gone to the search engine for that list to see if it has been repaired and I have had no luck. Either it has never been repaired or I somehow mange to chose just the "right" time when it is down, again. > Gmane (while it was still alive) broke a few times but it was always > repaired fairly quickly (I nagged Lars a couple of times about it, so > I may have indirectly contributed to him giving up in disgust ;-) ). > Now that Gmane is being resurrected[1], I hope that things will be > more or less back to normal in fairly short order. > > [1] see another post of mine in this thread - although bear in mind > that my posts seem to take 12 hours to appear on the list; no > idea why. Great! Then I can find who first reported that lists.gnu.org search was not working and when. I know that it wasn't me. As I recall Nicolas G. suggested that I contact whoever maintained the list (he gave the address) and report this. I did, but no response. Charlie Millar