Volker Simonis wrote:

Are there any plans for a search facility that can search all the mailing lists from java.net. I meanwhile counted 33 different lists and from the names it's not always clear where to look/post for a specific topic. I think providing a good search tool would greatly increase the usefullness of the lists alltogether and would reduce the burdon of double/cross posting. I also remember that I've already posted to discuss <at> openjdk on the 1st of March, however the current archives start from May only. Where have the old postings gone too? Regards, Volker

Dunno about the old postings.. they were on differently implemented infrastructure.

It seems to me that going to google and entering:

    site:mail.openjdk.java.net search string

would be a very good way to handle this.  But there's a robot.txt saying otherwise...

 wget http://mail.openjdk.java.net/robots.txt

Yields:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

There must be a reason for this to which I'm not privy.  To me it makes absolute perfect sense to index this stuff because it's the search engines that draw the most traffic to a web site.

- David Herron