* IOhannes m zmoelnig <[email protected]> [2024-04-23 12:06]: > On 4/23/24 08:56, Peter P. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The search function on https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list// > > is great, but a large number of search results are of the form > > "/pipermail/pd-list/attachments/20160527/3e480100/attachment.html" > > and are more or less unreadable. > > > > I would like to suggest to exclude them from the indexing or from the > > results if possible. > > > what you are seeing is emails that come with both HTML and plaintext. > > typically, a mail-client that composes HTML mail, will include the same > information in a plaintext part of the email. but there's not really > anything enforcing this (if you are usually reading plaintext emails, you > will know this "you need an HTML-capable mail client to read this" message) Thanks, indeed known to me. > as such, i do not think there's anything wrong with including the HTML parts > (even if they are rendered verbatim) in the search results, as they might > contain information otherwise unavailable. The main issue is, that I don't get the email's subject for the HTML emails, do you?
> in any case, i'm afraid this is rather low priority. I don't know. It renders about 50% of the results useless, at least to me, and even more so to less experienced users. > in the meantime you could try filtering out the HTML attachments by > excluding some html tag (e.g. adding ` -div ` to the search terms helps for > me; however, this will also exclude mails that discuss the use of [div]...) Thanks, will try this bit of inside knowledge! best, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
