[htdig] Stars, and Secondary Sorting Criteria

[Matt Minahan]

I had a look at the archives, but didn't come up with anything on these 2 
questions. I'm using htdig to search the archives of our email discussion 
lists, stored in Mailman:

1) what type of algorithm does htdig use to determine how many stars to 
assign to a citation?  There are many times when htdig will assign 3 starts 
to one citation and 4 to the next one, when there is nothing that 
differentiates them, at least that I can see, ie, they both are exact 
matches to the search criterion . . .  and

2) is there a secondary search criterion that htdig uses in selecting the 
order in which to display matches?  Seems to me that date would be the 
obvious one, but I keep getting searches in which dates are randomly 
represented among a whole list of 3- and 4-star matches . . .

        Thanks for any guidance on this.

        Matt

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