Hi guys! I just joined this list to make two suggestions. Sorry for not listening first how this list works. I move forward that quickly because the JBoss lists (jboss-user, jboss-dev) have a pressing problem. The archives for this lists grew that big, that a usual "beginner" query will return more than 10 result pages. But you can only access the first 10 pages via links. Tweaking the url works but this trick is probably unknown to most of the users. The problem is pressing since JBoss (the application server, www.jboss.org) is moving fast and new features are only documented via email first. So the archives at "The Mail Archive" are very important to the JBoss team. As a effect we noticed repeated questions about the same topics which were answered just 3 days ago but due to the effect prople couldn't find the answer via search. So here are my suggestions:
1) Increase the 'maximum_pages' config for htsearch to 30 (or at least 20, see http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#maximum_pages) and 2) Change 'sort' config (http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#sort) to 'revtime'. This will bring up the latest messages first. Very good for huge archives where old answers are very likely outdated. I expect that 1) is no problem. Everyone with a huge archive probably gains improved quality from this. Smaller archives aren't affected anyway. For 2) I think most of you will oppose against that change. But who knows, perhaps nobody thought about that setting up to now ... Thanks for a quick discussion and decision about 1) in advance. Cheers, Tobias (member on jboss-user and jboss-dev) _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
