Re: searching Gmane questions

[Adam Sjøgren]

myglc2@gmail.com writes:

> Is there any reason to believe that gmane search will start working
> again?

One can always hope, but it is kind of dwindling.

> Am I correct in believing that gmane was unique amount NNTP servers in
> providing a search interface, and that the interface between gnus and
> gmane was a custom thing?

It is certainly custom, several others are implemented, but I don't know
if they are of any use any more:

 · http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/gnus/nnweb.el#n45

> Or is there a standard way to search NNTP servers that I am missing?

There was at least one proposal, I don't know if it was ever
implemented anywhere:

 · https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ballou-nntpsrch-04


  Best regards,

    Adam

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