Re: Request for comments: archive for mailing lists
Re: Request for comments: archive for mailing lists
- Subject: Re: Request for comments: archive for mailing lists
- From: "Timothy J. Wood" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 15:49:10 -0700
On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 02:08 PM, Bertrand Mansion wrote:
Now, if you don't want cocoa.mamasam.com to archive your mailing-list
publicly, just let me know, give me one day or two and it's off. But I
think
this won't make any good to any of us.
We don't have any problem with you archiving our lists at all --
please feel free :)
Your original message just didn't indicate that the true purpose
wasn't to archive the messages, but to archive them in a more useful
format. Thus, I just wanted to point out that the stated purpose of
your message was unnecessary.
If you can provide a better interface, then I think that it will be a
great resource for the community (especially, as <email@hidden>
pointed out, being able to search these lists at the same time will be
a new feature provided that I hadn't though of).
But, I would point out that your search engine is not very good.
It's fast, but it isn't doing stemming. For example, if you search on
'NSEvent keypad', it does not find a message of a couple days ago (one
that I found very interesting) since the subject had 'NSEvents' (not
the plural). The Apple search engine work here -- it performs correct
stemming and returns the test message for which I was looking.
So, rather than spend more time on UI, or whatever, I'd suggest
looking for a search engine that does correct stemming so that users
get useful results instead of blithely doing searches that return
nothing.
(To be fair, out archive search engine also failed a similar test,
but it looks like the actual indexer might be busted since it wouldn't
return any results either the stemmed or unstemmed query... have to go
check that out :).
-tim
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