Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:31:55 +0100 From: David Goddard <goddard@acm.org> To: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD mailing list search... Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.20000912223155.007e8e60@dmg.parse.net> In-Reply-To: <39BE3FE9.80E379BA@owp.csus.edu> References: <39BDCFB1.E4095297@tdx.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 07:38 12/09/00 -0700, Joseph Scott wrote: > I've pretty much given up on the search at freebsd.org. For better >or for worse I usually just go to www.deja.com/usenet and do a search >there. I know what you mean - apart from not supporting proper boolean searching (someone correct me if I'm wrong!), I just don't have confidence that the FreeBSD search is returning what I want. For example, from looking at the web pages, I have no idea how it handles the non-word characters (such as / - % ! etc.) that you might want to include in your search terms. Does it match them. I'm also pretty sure that proper regexps don't work, with only a wildcard at the end permitted. Likewise, there's no indication as to whether you can escape characters like * . It makes the search facility offered by the company I work for seem not so bad, which is saying something :-) Sadly, the GeoCrawler search facility appears to suffer from the same lack of transparency. I tend to use my web search engine of choice (Google ahead of the (amazingly still available) plaintext AltaVista) and hope that they have indexed enough. A glance at http://searchenginewatch.com/resources/software.html suggests that decent, free, stuff is available - is the search facility actively maintained? Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3.0.3.32.20000912223155.007e8e60>