From owner-freebsd-www Wed Jan 29 02:42:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA23811 for www-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 02:42:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA23806 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 02:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Wed, 29 Jan 97 11:42 MET Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for www@freebsd.org id ; Wed, 29 Jan 97 11:42 MET Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12681; Wed, 29 Jan 97 10:20:30 +0100 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9701290920.AA12681@wavehh.hanse.de> Subject: Re: Your mailing list search engine... To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:20:29 +0100 (MET) Cc: www@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at Jan 28, 97 01:19:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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) -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://cracauer.cons.org Fax +49 40 522 85 36