Re: searching Gmane questions

[myglc2]

On 12/01/2017 at 21:05 Adam Sjøgren writes:

> 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

OK, I was affraid that might be the case. Thank you for the definitive
references. - George