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Re: Is there a problem with the mail archives?
- To: a dot eibach at gmx dot net
- Subject: Re: Is there a problem with the mail archives?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:52:11 -0400
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000929010042.24205.qmail@web123.yahoomail.com> <200009290104.VAA18448@envy.delorie.com> <022901c02aff$a9e10f60$058106d5@default>
> Why on earth do you only allow to search 4 days back and not any more?
There are *three* ways to search those archives:
* The archive's global search. (http://www.delorie.com/archives/)
* The site's search. (http://www.delorie.com/search/)
* The "days ago" search.
The "days ago" search is a simple grep (i.e. very expensive to run),
intended to be used to find a referred-to email and nothing else.
Grepping through a few days means hundreds of emails, whereas the
global search uses a keyword hash and database, so searching hundreds
of thousands of emails takes but a fraction of a second.
If you want to go further back, click on the "/archives/" link in the
header and use the global search, setting it to a week, month, year,
or infinity ago; or use one of the "Thread:" links in the mail
header.
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