[wplug] Troubleshooting db?

[mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:54:06PM -0500, Douglas Green wrote:
> Hey all-
> 
> Well, I just wasted about 1.5 hours cursing at my new Debian installation 
> because my network simply wouldn't work (and it was working yesterday). I 
> tried EVERYTHING, re-read every man page, how-to, etc... Then I realized that 
> my ethernet cable wasn't plugged in... ooops. OK, Debian is (once again) in 
> my good graces. :)
> 
> I have occasionally browsed the mail archives looking for specific topics, 
> but it's hard to find what I'm looking for mainly because it's organized by 
> date rather than subject. I was thinking that it would be really cool if 
> selected emails could be sorted by thread and then grouped into some 
> categories like "networking" "email" "dri" "top 20 common mistakes" etc when 
> they are archived. Sometimes the "plain english" answers from our own mailing 
> list are more coherent than the docs/how-to's, and I think they could be a 
> useful resource for future browsing. 
A search engine would probably be an even better idea, I didn't see one on
wplug.org, but Debian itself has all of it's mailing lists archived and
searchable.  You should check out debian-user and debian-devel archives,
and perhaps a relevant specialty list, there's a lot more traffic on them
than wplug.

> 
> This sounded like a cool idea to me, but what is required to do that? Would 
> it me a major pain in the butt, and does anyone else think it would be 
> worthwhile?
> 
> Thanks
> Doug
> 
> 
> ps- "apt-get install".... I'm addicted! 
:)

I noticed your email address is @upmc.edu, if you have a good connection
to the CMU network you're welcome to use my local mirror at
ftp://debian.res.cmu.edu/debian/

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