Searchable Archives
Searchable Archives
- Subject: Searchable Archives
- From: "Vanderlinden, Thomas M." <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:09:58 -0400
good morning - - - -
If Bill Cheeseman is misusing the list search feature,
then so am I.
I have also found the experience to be
"generally unhelpful."
What's the trick?
- - -Tom Vanderlinden
email@hidden
Bridgeport National Bindery
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Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
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Is the search feature really working correctly?
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On the few occasions when I have attempted to use it, I have done a search
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of the AppleScript-Users archive according to instructions. But when I use
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my web browser's find-in-file command to locate the exact place where the
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found search term appears, the browser reports "not found."
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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
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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.
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Am I somehow misusing it?