Re: Searching the Mailing Archives
Chris Bensler writes:
> Everytime I delve into the mail archives, I quickly became frustrated.
> I do a search, I get the first 50 results (sorted by relevance?)
Yes. They're sorted by score.
The scoring system tends to rate messages that match multiple
keywords somewhat higher than messages that match
the same keyword many times.
> How do I get the rest of the results?
You can't, but you can try narrower ranges of dates,
specify sender, extra keywords etc.
> I do a search for "pass by reference", and I get results
> for every post that contains EITHER 'pass', 'by', or 'reference'.
> How do I specify that my filters are inclusive, not exclusive?
Phrases inside quotes are not supported.
You should search for: pass by reference
without quotes.
> How do I sort by Author? by Date?
You can't.
> Is it possible to have the MIME stripped from the posts
> that are in the archives?
To conserve space (there's over 50Mb of message data),
most MIME attachments are stripped out before the message
is saved. In some cases people actually put the body of their
message in MIME + HTML, so if there's any doubt, the MIME is retained.
The search program is written in C.
Euphoria for FreeBSD is now very stable.
I'm tempted to rewrite the search in Euphoria
just to show that it won't be much slower.
Euphoria code is (of course) much easier to
work with than C, so a few extra features might get added
along the way. No commitment - I really should work on other things.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
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