asterisk users - Dec 2004 - Old posts and the ability to search...

Gents,

Just a passing thought... is there any reason why the ability to search the
past posts on here isn't switched on? 

Just wondered, since it makes much more sense to be able to search the old
archives if you have a problem, rather than ask the same question again and
again...

Paul

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:53:27PM -0000, Paul Brock
said:
> Just a passing thought... is there any reason why the ability to search the
> past posts on here isn't switched on? 
> 
> Just wondered, since it makes much more sense to be able to search the old
> archives if you have a problem, rather than ask the same question again and
> again...
Use google with the Site: option.

Paul Brock wrote:
>Gents,
>
>Just a passing thought... is there any reason why the ability to search the
>past posts on here isn't switched on? 
>
>
>  
>
Paul,

I went to the following link and was able to download the arcives in 
mbox format.  Pulled them into Mozilla for searching, worked very well:

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/

Doug

asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com wrote:
> Gents,
> 
> Just a passing thought... is there any reason why the ability
> to search the past posts on here isn't switched on?
> 
> Just wondered, since it makes much more sense to be able to
> search the old archives if you have a problem, rather than
> ask the same question again and again...
Use Google and type in

site:lists.digium.com [whatever you are looking for]

Just replace the part in the brackets with whatever you wanted to search
for.

If I wanted to search for zapateller, I'd type in

site:lists.digium.com zapateller

Google would then restrict its search to lists.digium.com. 

You can do the same for the wiki:
site:www.voip-info.org [search term(s)]

Works with any site, actually.