Don't Waste Time on Fedora Mailing List Archive Searches - Search Engine Broken

[David Curry]

Subject thread says it all. 

The basis for my assertion is many experiences trying to find 
information in fedora archives.  Today, I made notes of steps in trying 
to find information in   fedora-config-list archives and conducting 
quite a few searches for messages dealing with pup.  I asked for 
searches on all sections, on keywords, on title, and on body.  I asked 
for searches of the entire archive and for searches on a couple of 
individual months.  In every case the result was the same - 0 hits.  I 
searched on pup + yum and again 0 hits on pup with a few hits on yum.

I googled "pup front-end for yum" and got lots of hits, including some 
news reader services like gmane (I did not look on gmane itself) where I 
was able to retrieve and read some fedora-config-list messages posted in 
January 2005.  Then I returned to redhat fedora-config-list archive 
page, selected January 2005 display by thread and searched for the 
specific subject thread I had just read.  You guessed it!! Zero hits 
even though it was the seventh message presented as I scrolled down the 
page.

The Red Hat archive search engine is broken, broken, broken.