Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 02:21:02 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Sorting order in mail list searches Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9911130215250.76399-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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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
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