Mailing List Archive Search Engine does not work

[Stefan Nowak]

Hello all!

The recent 2 days I have intensely studied the ID3 standard, related
information sources, and performed research on my own music player
(iTunes) and its library and files.

By working with digital music for many years now, I meanwhile know the
main practical issues of ID3 related topics and its real world
implementations.

I have written some proposals for standard additions, as well spotted
missing/flawful implementations of iTunes, which I would like to
publish to the iTunes wiki page.

But as I don't want to bother you, the ID3 workgroup unnecessarily, I
read and research as much as I can do on my own, before I put it
online for public presentation and discussion.

Therefore I search through the 2 main information repositories, the
Wiki and the Mailinglist.

BUT: The Mailinglist search function does not work!!!

When I start a search, such as:
http://search.gmane.org/?query=feature+artist&group=gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2

I get this error page:
Either the group "gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2" doesn't exist, or has
no indexable articles (usually this means it was only added very
recently, or that all articles have "X-No-Archive: yes" headers). The
group filter can be a single Gmane group name (e.g. gmane.discuss) or
a wildcarded hierarchy (e.g. gmane.comp.*). Since all groups start
"gmane.", you can omit that. Note that arbitrary wildcards and
substring matches aren't currently supported.

Is this a mistake or do you intentionally turn the mailing list
archive search off?

Thanks for replies,

Stefan Nowak

[Dan O'Neill]

The group is present on gmane.

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.id3v2

I will contact Lars, the gmane admin, and ask him to take a look at why
the group isn't searchable.

dano

[Dan O'Neill]

The list had a header added at some point which disallowed archiving.
The header has been removed.

Lars has provided me with information on how to back populate gmane.

Dan