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Re: Lugnet Search
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:58:49 GMT
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:40:17 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> > Todd,
> > Have you tried searching lugnet for S@H?
> > :(
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> No, I haven't... Why, what happens? Something really gross? I can't
> remember if single-letters are indexed or not (I think they're thrown out).
> Anyway, the search indexer strips out anything that's not a-z. Not great,
> but it was one simple way to avoid indexing huge message-ID's, for one
> thing. Needs to be replaced with something better.
Would it make more sense to limit the length of words, and skip super-long
words? I hate arbitrary limits as much as the next programmer, but how
many words are longer than (pick your number)?
Steve
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| (...) Yeah, that might be a lot better. I really should find a "real" indexer more appropriate to this particular task, though -- rather than tweaking my own that was just a quick hack. --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) No, I haven't... Why, what happens? Something really gross? I can't remember if single-letters are indexed or not (I think they're thrown out). Anyway, the search indexer strips out anything that's not a-z. Not great, but it was one simple way (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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