Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:25:46 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD mailing list search... Message-ID: <20000913192546.C264@parish> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000913105017.21793E-100000@utah>; from jcwells@nwlink.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:05:18AM -0700 References: <20000913094919.A11128@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000913105017.21793E-100000@utah>
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:05:18AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:38:33AM -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. > > > > Can you take this to -doc? I haven't got the time to deal with it now, > > but someone there might. > > I posted a request on -doc asking if anyone was interested in changing the > search and that I would volunteer to do the work. I haven't heard > anything. > Something certainly ought to be done. The existing search engine seems to be seriously screwed up in places. Aside from the 'sort by date' option being removed it displays a different date in the list of matches to the date in the actual message (messages regarding 3.x seemingly posted in 1996 :-/ ). One other thing about the 'sort by date' option was that it, as it's name suggests, only sorted the results by date, there was/is no way of constraining the search criteria by date (e.g. search for SCSI, but only in posts made in 1999 and 2000). If you are prepared to do the work I am sure a lot of people will be very grateful, including me. > Thank you, > Jason C. Wells > > P.S I crossoposted just this once as it seemed appropriate in this case. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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