searching Gmane questions

[m***@gmail.com]

Gmane used to provide search to which I became highly addicted ;-)

But 'G G' on a gmane group has produced errors like this ...

open-network-stream: search.gmane.org/80 Name or service not known

... for over a year :-(

Also, the gmane blog http://home.gmane.org has not been updated for over
a year. Is there any reason to believe that gmane search will start
working again?

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?

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

TIA - George

[Adam Sjøgren]

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

[m***@gmail.com]

Post by Adam Sjøgren

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
· 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
· 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