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