>Did something happen to the pianotech archives? I have tried doing >searches before and I would get results, but I would have to sort >through a zillion unrelated posts to find the one I might be looking >for. I tried it again for damper tray stuff and I got lots of damper >tray stuff returned, and no garbage! Something wonderful appears to have >happened!!! Was there indeed some major change? All new software on an all new server, as of September 9th. I agree that the searching is much faster and more accurate. When I was selecting the newest software for the server, I actually had to give up on the latest & greatest version of the search software -- it had bugs that prevented it from working on a archives as large as the pianotech archives. So I had to "back off half a turn" to the previous stable version of the searching software. Seems pretty good, as you've noticed. I also think searching single messages (i.e. the web pages for each individual post) produces way more useful search results than the previous mechanism which searched the majordomo digests. I also gained an improvement in the archive content by doing some serious filtering and processing of the archives while moving them to the new server. I had to actually write programs to do this, since I could not find any tools that would do what I needed :-( -andy
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