On Apr 6, 2007, at 6:57 PM, William Morgan wrote:

> Excerpts from David Balmain's message of Fri Apr 06 00:45:42 -0700  
> 2007:
>> So what do people think? Should stop-words be filtered by default?
>
> I also vote to turn them off by default. Their usefuless to retrieval
> performance is limited to specific and uncommon situations, whereas
> their ability to confuse people is not.

Very well put.

I, too, vote for off.
(gee, wasn't I the one who started this?  =)


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