From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 20:48:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 743A037B9DD for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 63169 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2000 03:48:04 -0000 Received: from theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 8 Jun 2000 03:48:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 761 invoked by uid 211); 8 Jun 2000 03:48:10 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:18:09 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: George Michaelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: please restore search-by-date Message-ID: <20000608091809.A727@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: George Michaelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200006080323.NAA09776@asuncion.dstc.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006080323.NAA09776@asuncion.dstc.edu.au>; from ggm@dstc.edu.au on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 01:23:37PM +1000 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG George Michaelson said on Jun 8, 2000 at 13:23:37: > > please can you restore search-by-date into the web page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists > > its increadibly useful to get responses sorted by date field. There was a problem with it (or rather, its behaviour was -- imo -- confusing), though I don't know whether that was the reason for removing it. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=151495+153739+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-doc/19991114.freebsd-doc Basically, if you asked for 25 results sorted by date, it wouldn't give you the most recent 25: it would pick the highest-scoring 25 of all time and sort those by date. If you didn't realise that, you could end up missing a lot of relevant mails; the only workaround was to ask for a very large number of results sorted by date. But even that possibility is missing now. Maybe it should be restored in some form? You can also try the search engines at geocrawler (http://www.geocrawler.com) Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message