From owner-freebsd-www Tue Jan 28 10:19:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29223 for www-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:19:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA29217 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA20806; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:19:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:19:30 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: "Alok K. Dhir" cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your mailing list search engine... In-Reply-To: <32ECE2ED.41C6@worldbank.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Alok K. Dhir wrote: > ...is very poor. Have you thought about trying excite's freeware engine > to index the files? I suspect it would work much better than what > you have now... Most of us are well aware of many shortcomings, but you input is still welcome. Would you be willing describe more specifically what *you* perceive to be problems with the existing search facility and what functionality you would like to se implemented? [background: I am a doctoral student in information science and have set up an independent study project looking and problems and solutions for using message archives in general. Hopefully, an improvement of the FreeBSD message archives will be a spin-off.] Thanks, -john