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Todd, Please cancel this post of mine: "(URL) Thanks, Franklin ===== Franklin Cain (and please do *not* call me "Frank" ;-) fwcain@yahoo.com | (URL) Control means HITTING YOUR TARGET!! ((URL) armed society is a polite society." -- Robert A. Heinlein (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) I would have to concur. (...) < goes away and tries it... > Umm - Would it not make sense to simply include the appropriate qualifier on the system side? (I tried it and got two year old results for "qs", but I'm probably doing (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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