From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 13 11:25:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA9437B422; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.135]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000913182550.SSNT16423.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:25:50 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8DIPla00896; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:25:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:25:46 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: Nik Clayton , chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD mailing list search... Message-ID: <20000913192546.C264@parish> References: <20000913094919.A11128@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jcwells@nwlink.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:05:18AM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:05:18AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:38:33AM -0700, Joseph Scott wrote: > > > I've pretty much given up on the search at freebsd.org. For better > > > or for worse I usually just go to www.deja.com/usenet and do a search > > > there. > > > > Can you take this to -doc? I haven't got the time to deal with it now, > > but someone there might. > > I posted a request on -doc asking if anyone was interested in changing the > search and that I would volunteer to do the work. I haven't heard > anything. > 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. > Thank you, > Jason C. Wells > > P.S I crossoposted just this once as it seemed appropriate in this case. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message