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rudy r937 at interlog.com
Tue Jan 29 11:35:24 CST 2002


searching combined archives of several related discussion lists?

the concept staggers the mind

;o)


to quote an entry in the forum,

   "The problem with post-hoc annotations is that if you
   implement them as free-text comments you've now forked
   your discussion space ... the original email delivered discussion,
   plus a web-based discussion.

   Another problem with searching email archives is that the one
   message that answers your question won't necessarily have the
   exact keywords you are searching on, but meanwhile there are
   dozens of other messages which do. It can sometimes be a
   simple matter of the poster using some unusual abbreviation,
   or possibly even mis-spelling the word. By god that is frustrating!

   What would be better would be to have these post-hoc annotations
   be of a constrained form: ratings, links, categories, and keywords."

hmmm, where have we heard categories and keywords recently?

thanks javier


rudy




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