Re: RDS msg search
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Feb 11, 2004
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Verne Tice wrote: > I tried the new search out and it works well. Only thing missing is an > option to extend the search backward or forward in time a few more > months in case the thread is ongoing. I've been on this list for several years, and I've also experimented a lot with the new thread feature. I would estimate that 99% of all threads are finished in less than a month, and if they aren't, they've probably deviated greatly from the original topic. After viewing a thread, you can easily widen the 3-month span that's displayed at the top, and search again, although it will also match strings in the message bodies, and the results will be sorted by relevance, not date. > If you could now add an option to get just most recent (last n msgs or > last n days) I would not have to use topica from the web at all! This > option would be for the highest level search only. Given the level of > activity on this topic, we need a granularity finer than one month. I suppose we could go beyond simply searching, and also provide a nice interface for viewing the latest messages. I'll think about it. I suppose Topica would be annoyed at having to distribute all our messages without being able to hit you with banner ads. > Another idea. How about an option to just list all > topics for a given date range which could then be > clicked to explore threads of interest? I'll add that to the suggestions folder. Thanks. Regards, Rob Craig Rapid Deployment Software http://www.RapidEuphoria.com