From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [GNU-Emacs] request: better subject lines Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 13:02:01 -0400 Message-ID: <87tw50369i.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <874lx5dhwd.fsf@pippiandcarlos.com> <20170502122324867083797@bob.proulx.com> <20170502230426626149279@bob.proulx.com> <8760hhvgws.fsf@debian.uxu> <878tmd8qv3.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> <871ss5v207.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493917387 22960 195.159.176.226 (4 May 2017 17:03:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 17:03:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 04 19:03:01 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d6K9d-0005pw-BZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2017 19:03:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6K9i-00075W-Vp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 May 2017 13:03:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59301) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6K8u-00073w-9x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2017 13:02:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6K8r-0001tq-7Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2017 13:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47597 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d6K8r-0001t3-0V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2017 13:02:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d6K8j-0004mR-6B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 May 2017 19:02:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Oc3SHYskq8MxaL//Ll8E16WGNak= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112955 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Nick Dokos writes: > >> AFAIK, Lars has dissociated himself from Gmane, but >> he has given the spool to a couple of people who are >> trying to bring everything back (with a new >> implementation). The NNTP part of this works fine > > ... you mean there are other parts of Gmane? > :-) >> (I too read the mailing list as a news group from >> gmane), but there is a lot of work still to be done >> (e.g. search does *not* work afaik). > > "search" - you mean search for words and phrases in > posts, like a web archive for all of Gmane? > > I heard of a web interface to it all but never used it > and I think that is a common situation. > You are better off then: If you *had*, you'd be spoilt by it, and you would be crying the bitter tears that those of us who did are now crying. > Besides, Gmane not being uniformly searchable doesn't > mean the contents isn't searchable on the web, because > those mailing lists have archives of their own - just > Google your own posts or see in the headers where it > ends up. I have tried to use the search "feature" on http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/ e.g. Two non-exclusive possibilities: I don't know what I'm doing or it is a cruel joke. Gmane's search might have had problems, but you could find things with it. -- Nick