Hey guys, here is the exact thing you want, check out this searchable archive hosted by Nabble: http://www.nabble.com/Lucene-f44.html - it archives all Lucene mailing lists into a forum, you can cross search all or drill down and search a single list. You can also narrow search by author, sort by date or relevance. By the way, the Nabble people use lucene for search. -- Sent from the Lucene - Java Users forum at Nabble.com: http://www.nabble.com/How-does-Lucene-to-compute-score--t10288.html#a685553