On Friday 05 July 2002 04:17 pm, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* James.Rocks@equant.com (James.Rocks@equant.com) [020705 12:13]:
To be fair to SuSE they already have a knowledgebase ... a search engine for the archives would be cool though :-)
The archives have several search engines--please read the faq.
Which FAQ? The only relevant FAQ I see on the SuSE support website is the one on htdig. Which brings up the next reason for the knowledge base I'm suggesting. Any search of mailing list archives is bound to produce a large number of false hits. Just think about how a typical thread evolves, with someone asking a question and a chain of responses that quote one another. The density of information compared with a knowledge-base article is exceedingly low. And without keyword indexing, it's also likely that relevant posts will be missed. Christopher, my suggestion is in no way a denigration of the SuSE knowledge base. I'm sure the SuSE folks recognize its limitations as well as or better than I do. The knowledge base I am suggesting would complement, not replace, the SuSE knowledge base (and operate independently of it, except possibly for shared software). Paul