Re: [vox] modification to the archive

[Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystMAPSems.com>]

I would have searched in vox-tech.  ;-)

Besides, "irq" here was used as an example.  It's not like you would 
be wading through hundreds of threads like this one.

My main point is, if I'm doing a search there's no way I'm going to 
rely on every poster having put in a thoughtful keyword list.

But that's just me.  :-)

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Saturday 01 December 2001 12:49 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> rod, you just proved my point for me.    :-)
>
> if you search the archive for help with an irq problem, you will
> find this message.   this meaning the one i'm writing right now.  
> and also the one you just sent.  and the one that i sent that you
> replied to.  all three.
>
> clearly not what you wanted.
>
> however, if you had seached on keyword instead of message content,
> this message wouldn't have appeared on the list of matching
> messages.  because there's no keyword of "irq".
>
>
> now what do you have to say about that?   :-)
>
> pete
>
>
> begin: Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystems.com> quote
>
> > Excuse my ignorance of the archive's features, but is there no
> > facility to search message content?  I think that would be more
> > effective, mainly because most folks wouldn't bother to add useful
> > keywords.
> >
> > If we CAN already search by content, I would personally never
> > bother trying to search keywords.
> >
> > -- Rod
> >    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
> >
> > On Saturday 01 December 2001 12:12 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > herny et al, i had a good idea.
> > >
> > > i think our vox-tech archive would be greatly enhanced if we
> > > could add "keywords" to posts.
> > >
> > > suppose we write a vox-tech post that would be very useful for
> > > people who are trying to search about how to solve irq problems.
> > > at the first line of the email, we could put some kind of
> > > "Keywords: " header, like:
> > >
> > > Keywords: irq, conflict, /proc/interrupts
> > >
> > > that way, we can find posts about irq conflicts even when the
> > > subject of the thread is something like "my dvd player doesn't
> > > work".
> > >
> > > a search would still search for title of email, but we could
> > > also add searching for keywords, and perhaps let the person know
> > > which posts matched by keyword and which matched via subject.
> > >
> > >
> > > what thinkest everybody?
> > >
> > > pete
> >
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