On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:31:00 -0800, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > >It is quite useful to make this item a drop down menu so the user > >can select the type of sort at search time. > My main concern with providing lots of search options is that they can > detract from the human interface (I think the George Foreman grill, > with zero buttons, is the pinnacle of industrial design). So the less
I agree. This search form stuff is in the first couple of pages of that "Don't make me think!" book. That text was copied and pasted from htdig ref. Should of quoted in better. > Or if date sorting is obviously better, that should be the default > and forget about giving searchers a choice. It should be the default simply. > reason, besides inertia on my part, is that Mail-Archive has now > invested quite a few CPU-years in creating 150GB+ of htdig index > files. So anything that requires re-indexing is pretty much out the > window for the time being. If there are any spare cycles, they could be working on a new index. > >Sorting by date doesn't seem to work as all the messages seem to have > >the same date, from I guess when it was last indexed ! > archives). The filesystem timestamps for HTML files created on a batch > run will probably all be the same, because the granularity of file > timestamps only goes down to a minute. The htdig indexer reads > straight from the filesystem, so I suspect it looks at filesystem > timestamps. I would be very surprised if the time of search engine > indexing had any effect at all. So, in short there is no time/date attribute to sort the messages in chronological order with the current htdig index? _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
