From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 5:47:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0FC14EBA for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 05:47:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Received: from rwwa.com (molasses.rwwa.com [192.124.97.13]) by rwwa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA35328; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 08:51:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Message-Id: <199911191351.IAA35328@rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: witr@rwwa.com Subject: Mailing list search weirdness Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 08:47:37 -0500 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm confused: If I search in questions for the string "withrow" I get this message: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=irt&id=00ca01bf2d24$4dfc0da0$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx But I don't find this message (which the previous one is a reply to, and was authored by me, "withrow"): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=199911111407.JAA20011@rwwa.com And if I search for "userconfig" I don't find either one of them, even though both messages have that string in the subject and the text. Seems like the search tool is either un-intuitive, or un-reliable. PS: In the above, searching for "Withrow" instead of "withrow" or "Userconfig" instead of "userconfig" doesn't change things. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message