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Subject: Re: [xacml-users] Archived Mails!
Robin Cover wrote: > Thanks, Farrukh. > >> The following google search string does not find your message in the >> archives: >> site:lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml-users/ robin > > Latency? I would not expect Google to crawl/index all OASIS > web pages hourly; on the other hand, I don't know what the periodicity > is, nor whether indexing is complete. In the past I collected evidence > that Google indexing is NOT necessarily complete, as we would require > for a dedicated local search facility. Actually I tried it with "Najmi" and it did not find my past posts either. So its not latency. > > As to the meta-comment: > >> Should'nt OASIS web site provide an explcit way to search the >> archives? This >> seems like a significant oversight >> that can easily be remedied. > > ... > > When it became apparent that dedicated search for email list archives > would > not be implemented at OASIS any time soon, I undertook a private > initiative to > get buy-in and permission for MarkMail indexing of the OASIS lists. > It should > supplement/augment (not serve as substitute or replacement for) the > dedicated > search facilities that I hope OASIS will eventually provide. W3C and > many other > prestigious organizations use MarkMail indexing to augment their local > search > tools. Increasingly, we have heard requests from OASIS members for > MarkMail > index/search of OASIS publicly accessible lists. > > http://markmail.org/ This site looks much better than nabble. It would be cool to have oasis archives searchable there. It is apparently not so yet? ... > > > [1] > > At the request of the Board IT Infrastructure Committee (ITC), > I once wrote a document "User Requirements: Searching OASIS > Email List Archives" (2006-11-20) which began as follows: > > "This draft document fulfills an action item taken at the > 2006-11-06 Board IT Infrastructure Committee (ITC) meeting: > to prepare a provisional set of user requirements for > searching OASIS email list archives. This draft [.01] is > not intended to be complete: it is offered as an instrument > to enable key stakeholders to identify major categories of > missing requirements, and particular (essential) user > requirements that may be missing. Thanks you for your efforts in this important area. Please post to the general members list when there is a solution in place. -- Regards, Farrukh Najmi Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com
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