SV: SV: Searching files through blinux-list?

["Krister Ekstrom" <krister ekstrom swipnet se>]

> Second: why should it be a greater 'nightmare' to use a search engine than
> a mailing list?Everybody who is able to send a question to and read the
> answers from a mailing list will be able to type in a file name into the
> input field of a search engine and read what the search engine delivers


Yes, if you know the exact file name, but if you don't and if you don't know
how to narrow you searches in an apropriate way, you could end up with
hundreds of irelevant hits. This has happened to me so i know what i talk
about here. It is often easier and less time- and in my case money consuming
to ask someone who mencions a file where to get it, than to type what you
believe is the real file name and end up at "the hottest xxx pics site on
the 'net".
/Krister