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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:20:47 -0500
From:      Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@earthlink.net>
To:        "Ed Zwart" <ed.zwart@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: searching archives broken?
Message-ID:  <20070310172047.09bb2f41.bsd-unix@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <6660f1280703101251w1fac7df7xc1d0eb23b22dafc9@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6660f1280703101251w1fac7df7xc1d0eb23b22dafc9@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:51:03 -0800
"Ed Zwart" <ed.zwart@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the
> archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/.  No
> matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches
> that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc).
> 
> I want to search the archives before asking the group, but the archive
> is way too large to make browsing feasible.  Is search broken, or am I
> missing something?

I use google to search the FreeBSD site.  Do your google search
as usual but add "site:freebsd.org" at the end and it limits the
searches to freebsd.org.

Other operators can be used for google also:

  http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html

HTH some,

Randy

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