From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Nov 28 14:34:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@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 715201535E for ; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 14:34:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 11956 invoked by uid 211); 28 Nov 1999 22:32:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Nov 1999 22:32:48 -0000 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 04:02:48 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Wolfram Schneider Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sorting order in mail list searches In-Reply-To: <19991128223018.B1209@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> 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 > > 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. > > 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? How about adding "highest scoring matches" after the "limit the number of results to..." line? That is, it says now: Limit the number of results to [25] sort by [score] [submit query] [reset] That could be changed to: Limit the number of results to [25] highest scoring matches Sort results by [score] [submit query] [reset] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message