From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 25 10:33:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29057 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:33:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA29050 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA03689; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:28:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704251728.KAA03689@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: What's the deal with cc? *CRAP* To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:28:21 -0700 (MST) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, terry@lambert.org, chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Apr 25, 97 08:30:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > in it. See the cvsup manpage section on refuse files. > > > > > > > > Well, the man page is not bvery useful, > > > > It's true, the section on the refuse files needs some fleshing out > > and some examples. But hey, given that you're the guy who can > > churn out thousands of words a day here in these lists, why don't > > you write something up and send it to me? ;-) > > Just as a small footnote, last time I re-indexed the > freebsd-hackers mailing list, "terry" and "lambert" gained > stopword status. Oh well... > [For people not familiar with text databases, that means the word > occurs so frequently it ceases to be useful in a query to > discriminate between documents. Now, I should also qualify that > the automatic stopword handling in freewais-sf is bogus because > when something becomes a stopword should be keyed to the total > number of documents in the databes, but freewais-sf had a > hardwired threshold of 20,000 occurances. I have since boosted > that limit to a more reasonable level for the size of the mailing > list so Terry is no longer a stopword. But still, 20,000 > occurances in the hackers list alone is an accomplishment!] Is this for document source, only, or is this for all occurances? The numbers were artifically inflated by the occurance of my name in "Subject:" lines and text body (my signature, unnecessary quotes of my signature, "Terry Lambert writes:" and similar citations, etc.), if the latter. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.