Thirty Second Guide to Searching OASIS Email Archives (Approved)

From time to time, we all have the need the dig into the OASIS email archives to hunt for an email. A list of publicly searchable OASIS email archives can be found at:

• http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/

The quickest way to search a TC's archive is not from the internal TC Member page’s email tab, but by using the search field located at:

• http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/<tc-name>

For example, go to http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ebxml-msg to search the ebXML Messaging TC email archive.

The OASIS email search function is a front end onto MarkMail, so another way to do the same search is to go to

• http://markmail.org and enter “search-string list:org.oasis-open.lists.<tc-name>” in the search field.

For example, “public review list:org.oasis-open.lists.ebxml-msg" searches the ebXML Messaging TC email archive for all emails about public review.

Markmail syntax help can be found at: http://markmail.org/docs/faq.xqy#searchsyntax

More details for searching the OASIS site can be found at:

• http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php#searchingarchives (not needed if this text is included in the searchingarchives guide)

• http://search.oasis-open.org/