bay -- 2 messages hog -- none hög (Swedish for "high") -- 80 Kind of sums up...
I guess I'm too used to search by "exact phrase" and Boolean searches. An idea, perhaps, for the future...? /Max G At 2003-05-26, 14:12 CET, Marlyse Comte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how many of the remaining 82 messages contained the word "hog" or "bay" ? > >---marlyse > >------------------------original message(s) follows------------------------ > >>I through away the index folder, run "Rebuild Indexes..." and tried a >>search for "Hog Bay" -- a new correspondance I've had with Hog Bay >>Software. So I know for sure I've exactly 11 messages back and forth >>containing Hog Bay. >> >>Search result for "hog bay" = 93 hits >>Search result for "hog AND bay" = 95 hits >> >>NO other than the eleven messages have the phrase "hog bay". The only >>credit to the search function is it did give the 11 messages the highest >>relevance score. >> >>Max Gossell >> >>Btw -- Hog Bay Software develops a real good OSX Notebook (including a >>very good, flexible and reliable search function...). Found at <http:// >>www.hogbay.com/software/notebook/>. >> >>-- >>OSX v10.2.6 >>PowerMail v4.1.3 >>Dual G4 1.2 GHz / 1GB RAM >> >> >> >>At 2003-05-26, 11:16 CET, Barbara Needham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>George Henne on 5/26/03 said >>> >>>>it's nice to see signs of life there, but I don't see fixes for any of >>>>the problems being discussed nere. >>> >>>Well, if you read the release notes they do address "search" and >>>"manual." Whether or not the "fixes" meet your needs [or our needs] at >>>least they were taken note of. Now we have to try them and see if they >>>work. There was a note about removing an index file and starting over to >>>see if the search works better. >>> >>>-- >>>Barbara Needham

