Hi guys,

I guess a lot of you already know that the search function in phpBB
doesn't really work very well. Search for nsteg f.ex. - and you won't
get hits on several hints that are in there - and it's also full of stop
words, that mean you can't search on those - that sometimes would give
many, but good hits.

All this could be resolved easily, by inserting some rewite rules in
apache and an output-filter in php (or apache - it too has
modules/features for this kinda stuff) which simply rewrites urls like:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=14&sid=0d48ecb4e79d41ac653661d849983ec6

to 

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php/f/14

and for gods sake - put sid in a cookie - and besides why should the sid
be necessary for not logged in users? All this has been done in
PostNuke, and I'd gladly do the setup in apache/php for the forums - so
that everyone who uses google, also can find all the GREAT help there is
to find in the Gentoo Forum. 

I have many times found answers to hard problems in the gentoo forums,
which werent' available on google - and I'm sorry to see that so many
Linux users don't find the gentoo forums - or just don't find the answer
on the forums, due to the bad search function in phpBB.

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