At 09:27 AM 3/23/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>I have microsoft.public.* groups among lot of other groups.
>
>when i search for 'Microsoft' using webnews.cgi, it doesnt return any articles. I
>have seen few articles with that word.
>
>webnews.cgi seems to work ok for most of other keywords except few like this.
>
>was wondering if others had similar problem and any fixes for this?
The fts database removes all words which are in more than 80% of messages
and it may be including some of the headers (the group name for example)
so as a result that word is of no value for searching (if you'll excuse the pun)
ChrisP.