Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:06:32 +0100 From: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD mailing list search... Message-ID: <4BPAOVkK5eeB4p6bGlE1DiPDgvok@4ax.com>
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Mark Ovens wrote: >> search and that I would volunteer to do the work. I haven't heard >> anything.=20 >>=20 > >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. >=20 Me too. Any way the pages could be sent with the search words = highlighted in some way? Also I'd love to see just replies when searching the lists; a sort of Re: only filter. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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