Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:30:18 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sorting order in mail list searches Message-ID: <19991128223018.B1209@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911130215250.76399-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 02:21:02AM %2B0530 References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911130215250.76399-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On 1999-11-13 02:21:02 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > 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. True. > 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. Do you have an idea for a better description? -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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