[Python-ideas] Browser for mailing lists

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/29/2014 4:54 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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.

This list and many others are also available through, archived at, and 
searchable at news.gmane.org.

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Terry Jan Reedy