From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: mailing list search given problems with gmane? Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:03:35 -0400 Message-ID: <87poof8lso.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87zinmtkfd.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <17f223308c1a4cffa968f40fee5a627f@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> <87eg4xtuav.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87mvjlrwix.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50582) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhk0i-0005r5-La for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:03:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhk0e-0001G5-C5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:03:56 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46147 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhk0e-0001Dk-5R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 17:03:52 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bhk0R-0000X2-PX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 23:03:39 +0200 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 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. 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. -- Nick