On 3/29/2014 4:54 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Richard Prosser
writes: I wanted to search this list (and other Python ones) but it is practically impossible to do so.
The forum URL:https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas has all its messages archived online for web browsing at URL:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/.
So you can use any web search tool to search it. A good search engine like DuckDuckGo will let you constrain the search to a particular subset of the web:
site:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas foo bar baz
So why not add a tool like http://markmail.org/search/?q=python to https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas or the like?
We have generally-appicable services that index the web and make much better search tools. I don't often find a site's own custom search tool to be sufficiently better to use it, when DuckDuckGo is available.
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