Re: Searchable Archives
Re: Searchable Archives
- Subject: Re: Searchable Archives
- From: Chuq von Rospach <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:02:50 -0700
On 10/1/01 11:48 AM, "Bill Cheeseman" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Is the search feature really working correctly?
As far as we know it is.
If you run into issues, please let us know privately.
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In general, searches seem always to yield references to a digest, which is
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very long, contains many individual messages, and does not obviously respond
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to my search terms.
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And the 5- or 6- line summary that appears in the list of "hits" contains
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generally useless information -- apparently the beginning of the digest
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rather than an excerpt showing the context of the found search term.
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I find this search capability to be generally unhelpful.
Improving this is the next project for that server. We're going to
restructure how we store stuff, so searches are more useful.
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Chuq Von Rospach, lists.apple.com Lead Administrator
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