[Orca-users] Mailman Search ?
Sean O'Neill
sean at seanoneill.info
Fri Jan 24 10:50:52 PST 2003
At 10:43 AM 1/24/2003 -0800, Blair Zajac wrote:
>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.
I think you could play games with this. It would be ugly though I think.
You could have mailman.orcaware.com as a seperate DNS subdomain but in
Apache this is simply a virtual host whose docroot points to
<docroot>/mailman/listinfo. This would still be in your current
www.orcaware.com stuff so Google should still browse all the way down into
the mailman stuff keeping your ranking up.
>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?
I think you're right here. Not worth the effort.
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