> I've made two fixes to the search engine:
> - prevented duplicates from appearing in the results
> - case-insensitivity on our special field names in searches (date,
> from,
> subject, message)
>
> That tidies things up nicely.
>
> Jeff
I'll say, Jeff!
Yep, the dupes are gone. Interesti
Jeff,
Thanks for the overview. I'm going to be working on a new web site for
my group, so I may attempt something like that.
Mike D.
> An "advanced search" form would basically have a bunch of fields like
> "subject" and "date" and "from" then string them together into a query
> syntax describ
> Hi Mike. That's a very good point about the case sensitivity on the
> "from" and "date" directives. I'll see what I can do to fix that.
Thank you, Jeff. I figure that while it's all fresh for me, the things
I stumble on have the best chance of helping future users. Once I'm
used to it all I'
Well, I've been playing with my shiny new archive! Great stuff!
I stumbled on a less than intuitive detail of the search syntax...
First I tried:
"From: M. G. Devour"
...and got messages in which I was quoted by others. Okay, not what I
thought I was going to get, but makes
Hi Jeff,
I wrote:
>> The list name links to the info page; optionally not displayed if made
>> redundant by the nature of the logo.
You wrote:
> This one requires too much per-list thinking; we'll only consider
> changes that are fully automatic.
I understand and accept. If that's the case, the
> With Mike's permission, I am moving this over to gossip because it is
> of general interest.. Like everything else, I think this boils down to
> cost versus benefit.
Greetings Jeff,
Not so surprisingly, I'm the list owner Mike M. is encouraging to get
set up with you!
And he has independent
Thank you for the reply, Jeff!
You write:
> Bring it on. The Mail Archive gets tens of thousands of inbound messages
> daily, and currently serves on the order of [100] queries per second. So I
> don't think there is any concern about swamping the service given the
> numbers mentioned. Doesn't ma
Dear Jeff or Jeff,
Sorry about the Subject, I've been used to dealing with folks with a
considerably different business model. I do want to be sure I
understand a few things before setting up an archive.
First off, I have something like 150,000 messages going back over ten
years, occupying a
