Received from Max Gossell on 23/5/03 at 1:06 pm >A search/filtering tool you can't trust is a tool you can't use at all. >And you are back to your own memory or manual looking through zillions of >mails.
I agree entirely. The main search function of PM is a very good case in point. I almost never use it any more because the results returned are so often inaccurate. People on this list, myself included, have been complaining quite legitimately about the search functions of PM for years now, and it's still no better. If I was somebody who needed to regularly search my database for long-lost emails (as opposed to having to do so only infrequently, as I do) then I think that I'd have ditched PM long ago, in spite of the fact that in almost every other respect I find it a joy to use. CTM often explain that because PM uses the Sherlock search engine, any inaccuracies are down to that, not PM itself. Well, then, don't use the Sherlock engine. It seems obvious to me that accurate searches are possible on a body of email, because almost every other email client manages to perform them. PM always returns too many false positives and false negatives -- a fact that isn't always obvious unless one performs a test search where the correct results are known beforehand. I think I've been using PM for 3 years now, since v.3.1 or something like that; isn't it time this problem was fixed? I mean, 3 YEARS of regular complaints about a problem and it's still with us? What's THAT all about? Rick ----------- G4/500 MHz (DP) :: OS 10.2.4 :: PM 4.1.2 :: 3 pane mode :: 768 MB RAM <www.sharkattack.co.uk>
