> On Apr 4, 2024, at 8:38 PM, Graham Stewart <gstewart.gm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Peter:
> The Rhodes22.net web page works beautifully for me. I have never really
> been able to use the old system so this is a massive improvement. We are
> very lucky to have someone with your skill and generosity of spirit to sort
> this stuff out for us. Thanks so much!
> Graham
> Agile 1976
> Graham Stewart
>gstewart.gm at gmail.com>>>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 4:47 PM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:
>>>> As I mention in my last post, in order to support the web interface for
>> the Rhodes 22 email list, the entire history of the emails sent to the list
>> has been extracted from the Mailman archives and placed into a relational
>> database. This was primarily done to make sure that the user interface
>> performed well, but it also has benefits for facilitating searches.
>>>> Previously, the only way to search the email list archives was to search
>> the archive web pages. On rhodes22.net, a search of the archives will
>> instead search the database. This allows searches to be more narrowly
>> tailored. For instance, you can choose to search just subject lines.
>>>> But there’s more…
>>>> As I also mentioned in my last post, most emails sent to the list have two
>> sections of content: the new text written by the sender; and older content
>> that was in the message being replied to. The search page refers to the
>> new content as ‘Original Text’, and the older content as ‘Quoted Text’.
>>>> A search of the archive web pages will look through and potential find
>> hits in both Original Text and Quoted Text. Often, the search word or
>> phrase will be found over and over in the same segment of Quoted Text which
>> reappears in many messages. This can result in some pretty muddy water.
>>>> The process that extracts messages from the archives splits the original
>> text from the quoted text and stores them in separate database tables.
>> This allows the search to optionally ignore the quoted text and just search
>> the original text, which will probably produce a better result set.
>>>> The actual search engine is a black box provided by the Database
>> Management System (DBMS). If it doesn’t produce the expected results,
>> there’s not much we can do about it. But the limited testing that I’ve
>> done indicates that it works pretty well.
>>>> If you’d like to check it out, you can find it at
>>https://www.rhodes22.net/email-search.html>>>> —Peter
>>>>>> [ Sent From rhodes22.net ]
>>
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