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[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Tom Metro wrote:
> I just tried looking something up in the BLU (discuss list) archives:
> 
> http://olduvai.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/
> 
> and noticed we don't have a search engine. These days Google is the 
> quick answer to that problem, but Google seems to have a very limited 
> index of olduvai.blu.org. For example, a search that should have turned 
> up a few hundred posts in the entire archive, or even several from 
> January, only turned up one from the January archive.
> 
> Are there steps we can take to get Google to spider the site? Are there 
> any robot rules preventing Google from spidering the site?
> 
> Are there any other list archiving services that archive BLU discuss? 
> (Usually they turn up in a Google search, but I found none on the web or 
> in groups.) If not, maybe we should start using one as a secondary archive.
> 
> We could always change the archiving software to one that provides a 
> search feature, but that's probably more work than getting Google to work.

Back on the old BLU server, long ago, I was having difficulty getting 
mailman to display the various lists from the url

     http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

It proved quicker to throw together a simple php page to link to each 
list's archive page. Some time after that I put the google search box on 
that php page.

A while back we got a new server, and we moved all the lists over to 
that. During the move i figured out how to convince mailman to display 
the lists without needing to roll my own index page. I never found the 
time to figure out how to add the google search box within mailman, and 
if I ever do get around to it, I'd want to be able to do it in a way 
that won't be wiped out every time I upgrade the mailman rpm.

Ideally I'd want to include it in whatever template mailman uses to 
generate each list's archive page, suc as

     http://olduvai.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/

If someone can point out what files need to be modified, that would be 
appreciated. And if a better address-munging scheme can be easily bolted 
onto mailman, a pointer to that would be nice.

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