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Re: Lugnet Search
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:33:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> > 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.
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> 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)?
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
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| (...) You can probably bend Harvest to this purpose. I haven't used it in a while, and never with a custon-defined summarizer, but I think you could make it work. (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) 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 (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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