On 5/10/01 12:53 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On or near 5/10/01 11:39 AM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>
>> On 5/10/01 11:19 AM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Question 1: Shouldn't there be an option to include/exclude newsgroups?
>>> Perhaps you can set a criterion for the search that would do that, but I
>>> don't see one!
>>
>> Item Types:
>> � Messages
>>
>> Location:
>> All folders
>>
>> Criteria:
>> <Specific Header> <Newsgroups> <Does not exist>
>>
>>
>> It works just fine. Add other criteria as desired with <if all criteria are
>> met>.
>>
> I'm sure it WORKS. But you are including all the news messages in the
> search, even though you know you don't want to examine them. My situation: I
> had about 1000 mail messages, and five newsgroups which apparently
> referenced over 3000 messages. I wanted to search JUST the mail, not the
> news. (In fact I did not even realize the news messages were there; I had
> not accessed the newsgroups in weeks.) The way you propose does exclude the
> news messages from the results, but it still wastes time examining them.
> Finds are slow enough...!
Actually, it seems pretty fast to me. But I guess you now know you could
Empty Cache first, which would get rid of them before you did your Fin. Or
even Unsubscribing to some groups should make their folders non-existent,
which maybe would mean that the Find would omit those NG's messages. I
haven't tested that yet,, and don't quite know how. I could time an initial
search (which is always slowish), then do the identical search again (always
faster, since the results are cached somewhere), then unsubscribe to a bunch
of newsgroups and do the search again. It wouldn't be a "real-time" test,
since an initial search, even without the unsubscribed NGs, will always be
slower than a second search, but comparing the time taken to that of the
second full search would show relative difference. Some day I'll test this.
I'm glad you found the Unsubscribe button. ;-)
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