GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

[Paolo Bonzini]

> Yes it does. If nothing else, the archives are used to
> provide canonical URLs for referring to messages.
> 
> What might not be clear is the need to run a search
> engine on the sourceware server, especially if it
> puts an awful load on the server at times and especially
> when "foo bar site:gcc.gnu.org" on Google works just
> fine. However, I have come across (rare) instances where
> Google does not show any results for such a query
> even though I can manually dig out such a message and
> the message was posted quite some time back.

Google is heavily pruning gcc.gnu.org mailing list archives.  gmane does 
not, but then you have to go back to the archive and find the canonical URL.

Note that if you access GCC mailing lists via gmail (which I do) you 
have a permanent link in the headers, something like
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/74787 for Ranjit's 
message.  Maybe it could be possible to add a similar header (caveat 
emptor: I don't know anything about mailing list management software)?

Paolo