List archives & the never ending repeating...

Roger Jolly baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca
Thu, 27 Apr 2000 18:35:34 -0600


Hi Ron,
            You raise many good points as usual, what's your feelings about
a nominal fee for expanded search cpabilities?
I know that I've asked questions, because I could'nt find what I was
looking for.
Regards roger
>
>This could really be a great thing, but it could also be a minor curse.
>Posts often have subject matter crossing two or more topics, each bearing
>little to no resemblance to the subject line. They would have to be
>multiply indexed by the intent of the text as well as the subject line,
>which will be an awful lot of work. Did you ever try to look up something
>specific in a software manual when you knew the function you wanted, but
>you can't figure how they categorized it in the index? In other words, you
>would have to retain a full text word search option as a final resort to
>cover the inevitable holes in the categorical index. They would also need
>to be indexed sequentially to be stepped through as they occurred, as need
>be, to find that comment you thought you remembered being about here. in
>other other words, the indexing and reorganization should be an addition
>to, rather than a replacement of what we have.
>
>Just a thought or two.
>
>Ron N
> 
Roger Jolly
Saskatoon, Canada.
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