The Bioclusters Archives (search)

Hi, just a quick note to say the search function here;

http
://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioclusters/


isn't doing a very good job.

Try entering the term 'reiserfs' into that box, and
compare the results 
to the following alternative syntax of 'Google query';

h
ttp://www.google.co.uk/search?q=reiserfs%20site%3Ahttp%3A%2F
%2Fbioinformatics.org%2Fpipermail%2Fbioclusters%2F


The latter turns up about 30 specific emails (in related
threads), and 
the former turns up nothing. I can see why this is the case,
but not 
everyone visiting the site will have the idea to try their
own 'Google 
query' in response to a negative search result. Can we fix
this? Or add 
a search box to the info page?

Cheers,
Dan.
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Thanks for the tip, Dan.  We were using a phrase in the
email signature to 
narrow the search down, but it appears that the sig has
changed in the more 
recent version of Mailman.  Plus, many messages don't
contain one at all.  We 
just now changed it to use the email address of the list
instead.  It seems to 
work better.

Cheers,
Jeff

Dan Bolser wrote:
> Hi, just a quick note to say the search function here;
> 
> http
://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioclusters/
> 
> 
> isn't doing a very good job.
> 
> Try entering the term 'reiserfs' into that box, and
compare the results 
> to the following alternative syntax of 'Google
query';
> 
> h
ttp://www.google.co.uk/search?q=reiserfs%20site%3Ahttp%3A%2F
%2Fbioinformatics.org%2Fpipermail%2Fbioclusters%2F 
> 
> 
> 
> The latter turns up about 30 specific emails (in
related threads), and 
> the former turns up nothing. I can see why this is the
case, but not 
> everyone visiting the site will have the idea to try
their own 'Google 
> query' in response to a negative search result. Can we
fix this? Or add 
> a search box to the info page?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan.

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