Is Google sufficient ? was no Python mail archiving utility?

[Norbert Klamann]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message 
[discussion snipped]

> via http, for most lists (those which are public) I suspect Google searching
> is sufficient, which lowers the demand for an offline search facility.
> 
> Skip

I don't think that google is sufficient to search mail archive pages.
There are a lot false positives due to the references to next and
previous mail which are found on these pages.

A search utility which knows about the structure of an e-mail would be
more powerful.

Norbert