Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the search function (or at
least the sorting part of it) is a little funky?
Examples (all done on the NTDEV list from
http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=search):
Search for “encryption” and click “sort by date”. The article at the top of
the list is dated 2001. Then search for “fde” and note that the first
article is from 2005 – and that it contains the word “encryption”.
Search for “Holan” or “Wieland” (again, sorted by date) and see a nice list
of recent articles. But search for “Viscarola” or “Mason” and see wisdom
from the ages (OK, 2001). Somewhere around page 5 of the “Viscarola” hits,
the calendar flips ahead to 2005, with an occasional backflip to 2001 here
and there.
Would one of the esteemed OSR List Slaves be able to look into this? Or am
I misunderstanding how the article ranking/sorting algorithm works?
-Dan
----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: Stream Driver (DMA Allocation)
From: “David J. Craig”
> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:14:28 -0700
>
> This is another of those ‘already answered’ questions. Try searching
> before
> asking again.
[This is OT, so feel free to ignore]
Hi,
My guess is that you are the proud winner of the, “Who’s Going to be the
First One to Try This and Find Out That It’s Broken?” contest.
It doesn’t appear that Webinator (which does the indexing) has any sort of
smarts about the dates that are in the message headers, so I have no idea
what it’s basing its “Sort By Date” decision on. I’m going to see what I can
possibly do about this, but I’d suggest just going with the sort by
relevance option for now.
If you or anyone else have any further questions, bug reports, or personal
issues you’d like advice on please message me off-list
OSR List Slave
“Daniel E. Germann” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the search function (or at
> least the sorting part of it) is a little funky?
>
> Examples (all done on the NTDEV list from
> http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=search):
>
> Search for “encryption” and click “sort by date”. The article at the top
> of the list is dated 2001. Then search for “fde” and note that the first
> article is from 2005 – and that it contains the word “encryption”.
>
> Search for “Holan” or “Wieland” (again, sorted by date) and see a nice
> list of recent articles. But search for “Viscarola” or “Mason” and see
> wisdom from the ages (OK, 2001). Somewhere around page 5 of the
> “Viscarola” hits, the calendar flips ahead to 2005, with an occasional
> backflip to 2001 here and there.
>
> Would one of the esteemed OSR List Slaves be able to look into this? Or
> am I misunderstanding how the article ranking/sorting algorithm works?
>
> -Dan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Subject: Re: Stream Driver (DMA Allocation)
>> From: “David J. Craig”
>> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:14:28 -0700
>>
>> This is another of those ‘already answered’ questions. Try searching
>> before
>> asking again.
>
>
[This is a direct, off-list email]
Scott,
I don’t know the specifics of how the OSR list archives are setup
but I manage a couple of mailing lists and have made the archives
searchable through indexers like ht://dig (http://www.htdig.org/)
and namazu (http://www.namazu.org/).
namazu is especially suited for mailing list archives.
I have also used Google as an offsite index and it works just as
well. (http://www.google.com/searchcode.html)
I have also moved a couple of my lists to Yahoo! Groups so that
I can use all of their features but this may not be an option for
you.
Given that management of the list archives is not your focus, using
Google maybe your best best.
Please feel free to let me know if I can help.
And thanks for all your work as the list slave.
Regards,
Harshal Chhaya wrote:
[This is a direct, off-list email]
Gah! It obviously wasn’t.
I will turn-in my list admin badge now.
,
- Harshal
xxxxx@lists.osr.com wrote on 09/02/2005 09:14:45 AM:
[This is a direct, off-list email]
No, it’s not. 
[snip]
Philip D. Barila
Seagate Technology LLC
(720) 684-1842