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Subject:	Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:04:49 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: > The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled. I completely revamped > the index data structures and list-merge algorithm and rewrote the core > query engine in C. It's a much more solid implementation. Very good! Although the new search doesn't return most recent articles first like it used to. Is that how it should work? Now I can't see most recent posts that contain the keyword I want to search for, which makes the search pretty much useless if it returns thousands of results. - Dan

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		Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
(...) Not yet, no. See "to-do soon" section in previous post. (...) For now, if you don't mind URL mucking, you can manually append &qs=<number> to the URL and it will use that number (in seconds) as a time delta. For example, to limit posts to the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled. I completely revamped the index data structures and list-merge algorithm and rewrote the core query engine in C. It's a much more solid implementation. Everyone's patience during the outage is much (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !!

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