Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:41:23 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>, www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing list search weirdness Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.9912011836090.28436-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199912012329.SAA50574@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com>
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Robert Withrow wrote: > The bottom line is that this problem is making messages show up > in semi-random places in the output, making it *appear* that they > weren't found! > > Any idea what's wrong? Wolfram added the date sorting function, if I recall correctly, so I'll let him have a stab at it first. ;-) More philosophically, a dillemma for information retrieval is that the algorithms that tend to work the best are relatively complicated and opaque to the user. When searches go wrong, it is terribly difficult to debug the queries to make them go right. But I'm not certain that is the problem here; I suspect a more basic bug in the CGI script. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message
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