[TYPO3-UG Australia] For those who may not be aware ....

[Paul Sanderson]

Thanks so much Jason

This is such a valuable tool when troubleshooting an existing issue or
attempting to implement an unprecedented feature request from a client.
It opens up the collected knowledge and wisdom of all the TYPO3 lists in
one search panel.

I've found once my Thunderbird Newsreader cache reaches 1GB my laptop
tends to run much slower since it's constantly reading a very large file
from the disk. This means of course I rarely can search whole posts for
text; people sadly don't write descriptive 'subjects'. So sadly I caved
and messages older than 30 days get discarded now; causing the loss of
all but the most recent gems posted by TYPO3 users.

Since the mailing lists have disappeared from the TYPO3 website it has
become increasingly difficult to find those all important, and sometimes
obscure examples posted by other TYPO3 users. Though I am a fan of the
command-line interface and other development interfaces, I find all
new-readers slow and lack comprehensibility when dealing with extremely
large lists such as TYPO3's.

For example, it's possible to easily download in-full text every single
message from the TYPO3-AU group since it began, and do a full and
comprehensive search. I challenge anyone without a dedicated news proxy
server on their local-LAN, to do the same with the main TYPO3 &
developer lists. It's not possible.

I've begun to dread using the Namazu: a Full-Text Search Engine
<http://lists.netfielders.de/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=&submit=Search%21&idxname=%25%28listname2%29s&max=20&result=normal&sort=score>
since it offers results pages that are hard to navigate at times, and
recently have stopped giving results for the Main Typo3 (typo3-english)
list. Plus it's search options keep resetting upon every search, making
using this interface a chore.

So this is why I feel such gratitude to you Jason.

You've made my month!

Best regards,

Paul Sanderson
(iibscdev)

Jason Brock wrote:
> There's a great site that provides an alternative view into the mailing list
> achives ...
>
> http://support.typo3.us
>
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