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Date:      Wed, 15 Apr 1998 07:46:14 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>
Cc:        www@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Web Maillist Archives Busted
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415074342.455E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980414191937.01551@ct.picker.com>

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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Randall Hopper wrote:

> Simple searches to any lists, any number of lists, for search phrases like
> "freebsd" or "complete AND freebsd", which should result in many matches,
> don't turn up anything at all.

Like "a", "the", and "is", the word "freebsd" is not indexed.  It
occurs so frequently that it ceases to be useful in searching and
dramatically bloats the index size.   Sorry.

-john




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