Re: search going ok

Jeff,

>>I really *still* would like to be able to access all of the messages
>>in the sundial archive by date. I guess I've figured out how to
>>locate the most recent 10,000, but how to get to the earliest?
>
>Do you find date search useful? For example:
>
>date:1997*




My results from searching the sundial archive:

date:1996*   0
date:1997*   388
date:1998*   1028
date:1999*   1381
date:2000*   4
date:2001*   0
date:2002*   0
date:2003*   0
date:2004*   0
date:2005*   69
date:2006*   0

These results are obviously wrong. The sundial list archive has (or 
did have) over 12,000 messages from Feb 1996 to date. It's possible 
the 1997-99 numbers are correct, but there's still the big problem of 
only getting to see the "first" 100.




>>Maybe many of your clients need all of the bells and whistles -- I
>>just need something easy to use.
>
>I think almost everyone wants almost exactly what you do -
>something simple and easy to use. We had switch because the
>old system was choking on non-English languages. I've never
>used (or seen) Eudora, but the idea is to be as simple to
>use as the global search engines like Yahoo or Google.



Apropos the Google search engine, I got these results:

"sundial@uni-koeln" 1997*      448
"sundial@uni-koeln" 1998*      707
"sundial@uni-koeln" 1999*     1000
"sundial@uni-koeln" 2000*      707
"sundial@uni-koeln" 2001*      556
"sundial@uni-koeln" 2002*     1000
"sundial@uni-koeln" 2003*      259
"sundial@uni-koeln" 2004*       42
"sundial@uni-koeln" 2005*        8
"sundial@uni-koeln" 2006*        1

I can't say these results are any more satisfactory!




>That said, I did study computer science in college and I understand
>that I may be particularly bad at writing documentation for people
>with different backgrounds. This is why outside help is extra
>appreciated. Anyway, give us some time to look into the things
>mentioned above, and then I'd like to take another pass at the
>documentation with your assistance. Once all that is in place, we
>can get some additional critiques from other Sundial users. Ok?



I'd be happy to help. If you can put up with my cranky comments, I 
can put up with your bumbling efforts to patch the search engine. 
;-)


Best wishes,

Mac





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