Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 13:19:30 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org> Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your mailing list search engine... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970128131159.8252L-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <32ECE2ED.41C6@worldbank.org>
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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
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