From owner-freebsd-www Sat Jan 10 03:06:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA21200 for www-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 03:06:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-www) Received: from ppp6451.on.bellglobal.com (ppp6451.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA21195 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 03:06:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA00226; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:48:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:48:23 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Alfred Perlstein cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd search engine? In-Reply-To: <199801061911.TAA11438@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [list changed from -hackers to -www] On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > The search engine on the freebsd sites all return pointers to > www.freebsd.org. Probably because almost none of the mirrors run their own CGIs but point you to www.freebsd.org. It probably would be possible for whatever the search engine cgi is to check your referencing URL and, if recognized > for example, i'm on www2.freebsd.org and do a search of the mailing lists, > or ports or whatever and all the results point to www.freebsd.org, is this > on purpose, do the mirrors not mirror the handbook/FAQ? Maybe... :) -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.