[GNC] Searching mailing lists

[Bo Buckley]

In the docs:
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_Forum

If claims:

> The *GnuCash project* does *not* use ancient *forum* software for its
> online user support. It uses mailing list technology.


I'm completely lost as to the advantage of using a mailing list over an
indexed searchable forum, Github Discussions, or otherwise. In particular
I'm really struggling to find a way to find if my existing issue has
already been discussed somewhere as the only thing indexed appears to be
bugzilla and the FAQs.

According to the mailing list docs:

> Currently, there is no on-site mechanism to search the mailing lists
> *and the search link on the archive page is broken.*Instead, use the term
> "site:lists.gnucash.org" at Google or Yahoo! to search within the
> archives, e.g.
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.gnucash.org+string+to+search
>

I'm not sure if this worked well at one point, but it definitely does not
work well for me now. See attached screenshot. It appears Google's crawler
somehow finds its way to all the docs and other general content via the
lists.gnucash.org, so it is not filtering out hardly anything as I would
expect. The only alternative approach I can find is to browse (not search)
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/, which I think everyone
can appreciate to not be an exactly speedy process.

Is there a better way to verify existing discussions/issues (including this
one)?
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