[Python-ideas] Browser for mailing lists

[Ben Finney]

Richard Prosser <richard.prosser at mail.com> 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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Ben Finney