Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 10:28:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Cc: jdp@polstra.com, terry@lambert.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the deal with cc? *CRAP* Message-ID: <199704251728.KAA03689@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970425082149.10134M-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Apr 25, 97 08:30:15 am
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> > > > > in it. See the cvsup manpage section on refuse files. > > > > > > > > Well, the man page is not bvery useful, > > > > It's true, the section on the refuse files needs some fleshing out > > and some examples. But hey, given that you're the guy who can > > churn out thousands of words a day here in these lists, why don't > > you write something up and send it to me? ;-) > > Just as a small footnote, last time I re-indexed the > freebsd-hackers mailing list, "terry" and "lambert" gained > stopword status. Oh well... > [For people not familiar with text databases, that means the word > occurs so frequently it ceases to be useful in a query to > discriminate between documents. Now, I should also qualify that > the automatic stopword handling in freewais-sf is bogus because > when something becomes a stopword should be keyed to the total > number of documents in the databes, but freewais-sf had a > hardwired threshold of 20,000 occurances. I have since boosted > that limit to a more reasonable level for the size of the mailing > list so Terry is no longer a stopword. But still, 20,000 > occurances in the hackers list alone is an accomplishment!] Is this for document source, only, or is this for all occurances? The numbers were artifically inflated by the occurance of my name in "Subject:" lines and text body (my signature, unnecessary quotes of my signature, "Terry Lambert writes:" and similar citations, etc.), if the latter. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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