From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 13 17: 6:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2077737B423 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn220-ras39.screaming.net [212.188.134.220]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA12184 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:09:48 GMT From: John Murphy To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD mailing list search... Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:06:32 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: <4BPAOVkK5eeB4p6bGlE1DiPDgvok@4ax.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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