OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- Subject: OT? Why are list archive search results so lame?
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:23:23 -0700
Apple uses a system called "Mailman" for this and all their mailing lists.
When I search the archives, I typically get a screen-fulls of "results"
like this:
1.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2003/Jan/23/
nsbuttoncelltableviews.001.txt
From email@hidden Thu Jan 23 00:24:44 2003 Received:
from lists.apple.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.apple.com
(8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0N8ID617564; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:18:13 -0800
(PST) Received: from scv2.apple.com (sc...
http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2003/Jan/23/
nsbuttoncelltableviews.001.txt (text/plain) Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:24:49 GMT,
5802 bytes
As you can see, the only useful information in that nine lines of garbage is
"nsbuttoncelltableviews", which is the subject of the message written in
studlycapswithoutthecaps.
It is rather difficult to tell from these results which messages I should
read, and may be one reason why amateur programmers like me keep bothering
you smart folks with the same stupid questions over and over.
Am I using the "search archives" feature correctly?
If so, why is it that the best computer company in the world, with the most
advanced operating system, and the smartest people, and a large
developer-support department, do not provide something better than this?
Should we have a bake sale so ADC can purchase something a little more
handy?
Jerry Krinock
San Jose, CA
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