i have a few questions about boost that might have been discussed and answered on this list before. there seems a convention to add the topic in square brackets to the subject as e.g. [thread], [preprocessor] or [review], etc.
how do i search the list archive by these topics ?
i see there is http://search.gmane.org/ but that only supports search by keywords in the entire message and seems to ignore [square brackets]. there is also custom google search on the boost homepage which i can further filter down to the mailing lists by adding site:lists.boost.org, but it also ignores square brackets, even when put in double quotes and does not seem to allow sorting by date or support a threaded display. lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/ doesn't support searching at all.
is there a trick how to search the mailing list archives properly ?
> i have a few questions about boost that might have been discussed and > answered on this list before. there seems a convention to add the topic > in square brackets to the subject as e.g. [thread], [preprocessor] or > [review], etc.
> how do i search the list archive by these topics ?
> i see there is http://search.gmane.org/ but that only supports search by > keywords in the entire message and seems to ignore [square brackets]. > there is also custom google search on the boost homepage which i can > further filter down to the mailing lists by adding site:lists.boost.org, > but it also ignores square brackets, even when put in double quotes and > does not seem to allow sorting by date or support a threaded display. > lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/ doesn't support searching at all.
> is there a trick how to search the mailing list archives properly ?
Vicente Botet wrote: > Steven Samuel Cole wrote >> is there a trick how to search the mailing list archives properly ? > http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/
> i have a few questions about boost that might have been > discussed and answered on this list before. there seems a > convention to add the topic in square brackets to the subject > as e.g. [thread], [preprocessor] or [review], etc.
> how do i search the list archive by these topics ?
I don't know of any techniques to solve the specific search problems you mentioned.
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Stewart, Robert wrote: > Since you phrased that as "seems to be a convention", I conclude that > you haven't read http://www.boost.org/community/policy.html. You might > want to do that.
i did read that page and i put keywords in square brackets in the subject when posting just like it's been custom for many years now.
however, browsing the archive, it seems many posters do not do that. while that might be unfortunate, it does not really matter, at least for the mailing list archive online search tools i've found so far: they all seem to ignore square brackets anyway. maybe they are useful in a desktop mail/news client...
> is there a trick how to search the mailing list archives properly > ?
Hmm, apart from the other suggestions: I'm using NNTP to access the mailing list. It is listed on gmane.org. That way I can use my email client to search the message headers. Maybe that is an option for you, too.
Frank Birbacher wrote: > Hmm, apart from the other suggestions: I'm using NNTP to access the > mailing list. It is listed on gmane.org. That way I can use my email > client to search the message headers. Maybe that is an option for you, > too.
yes, that's actually how i follow the list right now, thanks! :-)
the issue i have with downloading emails or news postings before reading them is that i move betweem machines quite a lot and whatever is local, i have to re-download on each one; that's the reason why i asked for an online alternative in the first place.
i reckon unless someone comes up with something like IMAP for NNTP, a desktop newsreader is probably the way to go - postbox (and thus thunderbird) search is fast and there's threaded display - and ignored square brackets 9which doesn't really matter as long as there's enough keywords in the subject to keep me from re-asking something that's been recently discussed).
> the issue i have with downloading emails or news postings before reading them is > that i move betweem machines quite a lot and whatever is local, i have to > re-download on each one; that's the reason why i asked for an online alternative > in the first place.
FWIW, with thunderbid you have it store all email/newsgroup post/contacts, etc... in any folder you like, which can be for instance in a pen drive.
Then you just need to configure all your thunderbird's to use the profile folder on the pendrive.
I don't recall the exact command-line syntax so you better look it up, but it's something like:
