From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 12 12:50:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from uumail-relay-blr.ernet.in (uumail-relay-blr.ernet.in [202.141.1.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E9115000 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:50:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: from iisc.ernet.in (iisc.ernet.in [144.16.64.3]) by uumail-relay-blr.ernet.in (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id CAA22226 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 02:25:04 +0530 Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by iisc.ernet.in (8.9.2/8.9.0) with SMTP id CAA30260 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 02:18:53 +0530 (IST) Received: (qmail 76649 invoked by uid 211); 12 Nov 1999 20:51:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Nov 1999 20:51:03 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 02:21:02 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Sorting order in mail list searches Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm not sure which the right list is for this, but: It seems that when you do a search on the mailing list archives, specifying for instance "limit results to 25" and "sort by date", it doesn't pick the most recent 25: it picks the best-scoring 25 and sorts those by date. What it should ideally do is of course a matter of opinion but I think this behaviour is a bit confusing. (I discovered it when it appeared that geocrawler was giving more hits than this engine.) I believe that the most natural thing -- what people would take it to mean -- is that it should sort all matches according to your criterion (score/date/etc) and then pick the top 25 (or whatever). Alternatively, you could describe better on the page what it actually does: it is possible that its present way of working is more useful. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message