Searching

[Mark Wieder]

Fred-

Sunday, May 3, 2009, 8:49:33 AM, you wrote:

> However, often I only want to read recent threads. So I go to
> "Advanced Search" in Google and choose "Past Year" under Date. What
> inevitably happens is that there are no hits. For example, if I do a
> simple search for "jailbroken" I get 4 hits -- all emails written  
> within the past year. But if I do the same search but tell Google I
> only want hits that are from the past year, I get no hits.  
> Something's wrong here.

> Is there some other way to search through the mailing list?

Google Search's idea of "Date" is somewhat offbeat. For instance, if
the archive software has recently updated its index list then all the
entries will show up as "new", even if they were posted three years
ago.

Better options are gmane or Nabble.

-- 
-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net