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[Steve Goldman]

Ron Brown wrote:
> WORKS!!!  Thanks Steve - ya done good!
> 

So I was using the search capability today and I got bit by some 
things I expected might happen. This is word of warning about that.

So first I searched for "oil cooler deltahawk" and it came up with 
this message:

http://www.tvbf.org/pipermail/2006-July/013964.html

Which doesn't really have anything to do with what I was looking for. 
The problem here is that htdig indexes all the words on the page and 
the "Next Message" link fooled it.

The next thing I looked for was "Crossflow" sorted by date and the 
first message is:

http://www.tvbf.org/pipermail/2007-July/018788.html

which does have something about Crossflow buried in it but not exactly 
a good hit. This is caused by replying to a digest without trimming 
the digest. This causes the htdig equivalent of a google bomb.

So this behavior is annoying enough (to me anyway) that I'll probably 
spend some time working on a fix. Unfortunately this will mean 
actually having to write some code not just configuring the software 
so it will take a while. In the meantime be patient if the quality of 
the search doesn't match your expectations.

-- 
Steve Goldman
'77 Tiger N28531
Velocity XL5-RG (T-3050hrs)
Pittsboro, NC (9NC8)