Hey, just wait to Newton's site is up and running. I'm sure he will gladly take a fee for expanded searches. David I. -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Roger Jolly Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 5:36 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: List archives & the never ending repeating... 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. 306-665-0213 Fax 652-0505
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