[Orca-users] Mailman Search ?

[Blair Zajac]

Sean O'Neill wrote:
> 
> At 12:27 PM 1/24/2003 -0600, Sean O'Neill wrote:
> >At 10:26 AM 1/24/2003 -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
> >>Sean O'Neill wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hey Blair,
> >> >
> >> > You thought about adding a search capability for the mailing lists on
> >> > www.orcaware.com ?  Make browsing the archive easier at times looking for
> >> > something specific.
> >>
> >>Well, all those pages are generated by Mailman and aren't easily
> >>modified.  The best thing to do is to use the Google search page
> >>on the site:
> >>
> >>http://www.orcaware.com/search.html
> >>
> >>Unforuntately, there's no easy way to limit Google to search
> >>the portions of the site that have the mailing lists.
> >
> >Ahhh, forgot about that. Thx.
> 
> Not sure how Google works but what about this.  You have the subversion
> stuff on its own subdomain within orcaware.com, specfically
> svn.orcaware.com.  Your search page has search selections for
> www.orcware.com, svn.orcaware.com, and Everything.
> 
> Why not put the mailing list stuff under mailman.orcaware.com ?  Could
> Google then be modified to search under that subdomain specifically ?  Not
> sure how Google search works though.
> 
> This would seem to give some capability to search only the mailing lists as
> a whole at least - just not individual months but this is a start.
> 

There's several things here that I'm thinking of.  One is my site
popularity as ranked by Google.  I understand to have a better site
ranking, to have more articles on the main site.  So moving mail
to mailman.orcaware.com would take away from this.

My other thought is that there may not be too much non mail content
on www.orcaware.com so that searching for stuff on the site will
end up searching the Mailman archives.  Is this a fair assessment
for those that do searching?

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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