On September 27, 2006 at 17:44, Olly Betts wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 03:16:06PM -0700, Jeff Marshall wrote: > > In major search engines like Google and Yahoo, this relevance ordering > > makes the most sense. > > Google Groups and Google News both offer a choice of "date" or > "relevance" (date being "most recent first").
In my experience, I have found date-based ordering useful when searching mail. > Incidentally, Gmane's search offers both these and also "reverse date", > which shows the oldest matches first - not so useful in general, but > people requested it and it's easy to do once you've implemented sorting > by "date". It lets people find their "first post" if nothing else! Reverse date sorting is useful, and I use it on occassion on the various archives I have maintained and search. I do think such a facility may be useful for a certain-type of user, but chronology can be considered an intrinsic property of mail/news archives. --ewh -- Earl Hood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: <http://www.earlhood.com/> PGP Public Key: <http://www.earlhood.com/gpgpubkey.txt> _______________________________________________ Discussion list for The Mail Archive Gossip@jab.org http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
