Re: octave.org links to mailing lists are too unconvinient

[LUK ShunTim]

David Bateman wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
>> octave.org referres to only one way of communications - mailing lists
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/archive.html
>> I don't know how about USA or England, but in our country (Ukraine) very few
>> people know how to handle them easely & find old messages according to
>> interested subject from maillists archive in other way than web search.
>> 
I guess it would be much more convinient, if you will connect Octave google
>> group
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.octave
>> with 
>> http://www.nabble.com/Octave-f1895.html 
>> like MATLAB do (in many standalone forums)
>>   
> Yes I agree.. John was forced to transition the mailing lists about a
> year ago, and since then we've been missing a good search facility for
> the lists... I think if someone was to offer to help fix the search
> facility there'd be a lot of people that would welcome it.

For the time being, this is the workaround, for example, to search
"sparse matrix" in the help list archive

http://www.google.com./search?q="sparse
matrix"+site:http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/

> 
> If you want a nntp interface to the octave mailing lists, I prefer the
> gmane lists, that even allow direct access via nntp rather than through
> a web interface..

+1

Regards,
ST
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