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    Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —David Eaton
   (...) Could I suggest some amendments to the "To do someday" list (for an 'advanced search' only)? - Search by author - Search by subject line contents - Search by date range (or open-ended-- i.e. after date X or before date X) - Search for articles (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Todd Lehman
   (...) Sure! (...) These are mostly covered already due to the way the indexing works -- words closer to the beginning of a document are given higher weights than words occurring later in a document. When the indexer chews on a news article, it first (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —David Eaton
     (...) Pretty much... actually, I was thinking more along the lines of an advanced search form though: Search for: ___...___ (uses +'s and -'s as is) Search for text in subject line [] (checkbox) Posted by: ___...___ (uses +'s and -'s... or no (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         RE: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Bram Lambrecht
      (...) I think a multi-field advanced search is the way to go...much easier to use, IMO--something like the DejaNews power search: (URL) actual search keywords are in one field, and then there are numerouse ways to limit the search. --Bram Bram (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Todd Lehman
     (...) Ya, something like that'd be good to slap on top after the base functionality. :-) Nobody wants to *have* to remember how all the squiggly and square brace thingums in a search box work. :-) (...) Ya, precisely. It was originally (summer of (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Article bit-flags (was: Re: News search function reactivated) —Todd Lehman
      (...) Oh, one other thing...planning ahead: Another potential application of article bit-flags is read/unread lists on a person-by-person basis via the web interface. I know this is something that people have been asking for for a long time. When (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: Article bit-flags (was: Re: News search function reactivated) —Frank Filz
      (...) Ooh ooh ooh... One thing I really really want is to be able to put messages into folders (if anyone knows of a decent newsreader which allows such - please let me know - it would be preferable that it do so without requiring me to store the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —David Eaton
     (...) As an algorithmical guess, I think I'd probably attempt something a bit different... If someone enters: the I'd probably want to ignore it. But if they entered: the best design I might want to consider the 'the'. Dunno. I'd probably test an (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Todd Lehman
     (...) Oh -- actually, what search engines typically do on queries (and I just finally added this last week) is downvalue relatively common words and upvalue relatively uncommon words -- what's called "term ranking" or "term weighting." For example, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Frank Filz
     (...) One thing which would generally make it pretty easy to find URLs is to index "http". When dealing with special characters, definitely treat "/" and "\" as word separators. Probably ":" also. (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Frank Filz
   (...) Do you index the name in "X-real-life-name"? One thought, index the special strings "from:" and "subject:". The the search: from: ffilz Should rank my posts highly due to proximity. Of course it would be better to index the real life name as (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled) —Todd Lehman
   (...) Ya, let's see...as it assembles the text to index, first it grabs X-Real-Life-Name:, then it grabs either Original-From: or From:, then Subject:, then Keywords:, then Summary:, and then finally the non-quoted and non-sig parts of the body. So, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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