Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 08:38:49 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] searching puptcrit


Dear Michelle and All,

I assume that you are talking about the archives at 
http://www.driftline.org .  Well, the search function there is not 
the greatest, but it _does_ take into account both the bodies and the 
subjects of  messages.   One of the problems with that search 
function is that it is two-level.  So, for example, if I click on the 
puptcrit archive, and I enter "Alan Cook" (wthout quotes) in the 
search box on top, I get a list of monthly files in which the string 
"Alan Cook" occurs anywhere.  If I then click on any of those monthly 
files, I can, once again, enter "Alan Cook" in the search box, and 
this time I get detailed search results (with context) which permit 
me to locate individual messages, from that month, containing the 
string.   This two-level scheme is very suboptimal, as is the fact 
that one can only search for single words or a literally-correct 
string (and not for, say, several words at once).  The scheme could 
certainly be improved, but improvement would require a good chunk of 
time, and this is a commodity I am severely lacking these days.  ;-).

-m


At 2:56 PM -0400 5/26/09, Puppet People wrote:
>I just went searching for something in the archives and thankfully I
>remembered approximately when it was posted. The only way to search that I
>could figure out was by time it was posted not by content. I think some of
>the content is so valuable it would be much more useful and beneficial if
>one could search by subject...perhaps you can and I couldn't figure it
>out???
>Michelle
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