I'd be happy to help. If you can put up with my cranky comments, I
can put up with your bumbling efforts to patch the search engine.
;-)
Works for me.
So I tracked down the bug that was keeping most of the sundial
messages out of the search index. One particular message
with a very funny date w
JM, can you look into sorting results by newest-first?
I can. The only downside with sorting results by newest-first is that
you lose the relevance ordering. Right now, results are displayed
according to the search engine's concept of "most relevant" first.
In major search engines like Go
Jeff,
I really *still* would like to be able to access all of the messages
in the sundial archive by date. I guess I've figured out how to
locate the most recent 10,000, but how to get to the earliest?
Do you find date search useful? For example:
date:1997*
My results from searching the
You feedback is extremely appreciated, it's the quickest road to
improvement. I can't stress this enough.
My brief tests with "sundial" have left me frustrated. For instance,
a search for "oglesby" used to return over 550 results, 500 of which
I could directly access.
I'll look into this. It s
Hi Jeff,
I don't know what to say. On the one hand I appreciate the work you
all do in making the Mail Archive available, and for no charge.
On the other hand I still feel the search feature is a weak spot for
the casual user. You've illustrated the dazzling capabilities of the
new search e
