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Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
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Date: 
Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:07:34 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
I know what you mean, though, about being able to restrict a search to
_specifically_ some exact subject or author.  I'll think about how I might
be able to handle this in the future -- it would be a separate index database
for each of the two fields.

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 if it was preceded by from: also
so that you could search:

   from: filz

and find my posts.


--
Frank Filz

-----------------------------
Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com



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  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) 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, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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