From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-04T00:35:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Sending Ruby code vs. provding URLs

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Dave Burt wrote:

> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>>   - when all the code exists inline in the message one can search for it
>> using
>>     google or gmane.  this, to me, is by far the biggest advantage.
>
> Google's spider follows links. You'll find all my linked-to quiz
> submissions indexed separately on Google.
>
> I suppose you meant searching Google Groups or another archive of the list,
> and I think that's the only real benefit.

right.  but consider there are multiple ways of searching the archive - for
instance i have it locally and use grep.  grep does not follow links ;-)  on
the other hand it __does__ allow me to do searches like

   grep -A10 -B10 'Sync_m\.synchronize' ruby-talk/*

which would show me ten lines before and ten lines after every line in the
archive with Sync_m.synchronize in it.  that's powerful.  glimpse is even
more useful but i digress...

cheers.

-a
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