Re: [Gossip] search going ok

2006-09-27 Thread Mac Oglesby
Jeff, I've spent some time (several hours, in fact -- I'm a little slow) poking about on the Lucene site and its links in an attempt to understand more about the search process. I even downloaded and tried to read the two sample chapters from "Lucene in Action." That book certainly wasn't wr

Re: [Gossip] search going ok

2006-09-25 Thread Mac Oglesby
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

Re: [Gossip] search going ok

2006-09-25 Thread Mac Oglesby
can't do simple things, so there's no need for a beginner's tutorial. Best wishes, Mac Oglesby P.S. If it would be of any use to this process, I'd be happy to ask sundial list members to send me comments on their use of the new search engine. I wouldn't expect ma

Re: [Gossip] search library battle royale

2006-09-07 Thread Mac Oglesby
Hi Jeff, Once we've settled on which search software to use, I promise to make sure there's a "help" link leading to some examples. In the meantime, here's some documentation from the two vendors. To my eye, they are both offer ridiculously overpowered. Kind of like monster trucks. :) Thank

Re: [Gossip] search library battle royale

2006-09-06 Thread Mac Oglesby
tive to operate, or come with good instructions. A tutorial would be helpful. I'd like to be able to search the results of an earlier search. Mac Oglesby It's starting to get bloody. All right! By private email, one person noted that Xapian is not doing so hot on Czech. As in not

[Gossip] Reading SEARCH results

2005-10-31 Thread Mac Oglesby
I'm new at using the search function and can't find any way to read beyond the first 100 hits. No luck with any of the three browsers I've tried. How do I go back beyond the 10th page? Thanks, Mac Oglesby ___ Discussion list for T

[Gossip] posting old messages from Eudora-Mac

2005-10-15 Thread Mac Oglesby
you very much. Mac Oglesby ___ Discussion list for The Mail Archive Gossip@jab.org http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip