Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:20:29 +0100 (MET) From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Your mailing list search engine... Message-ID: <9701290920.AA12681@wavehh.hanse.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970128131159.8252L-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Jan 28, 97 01:19:30 pm
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> 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?
A thread database.
No matter who bad the initial searching is, one usually gets one
message out of a thread that matters.
Once you have that, a searching not by mesage, but by thread is
possible (at user's option), that means you compute a weight on a
whole-thread basis (hits/thread length or something).
Ideally, the thread identification process should be quite tolerant
and construct a thread by mesage-id's/references *and* subject (while
taking variations like truncates subjects into account), maybe the
amount of tolerance based on user's choice and some "knowledge" about
subjects/maillists combinations that usually don't identify a thread
("Help" "XXX vs. YYYY" etc.).
Martin (I'm very busy, can't help right now)
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