Re: To the Moderators: Malfunctioning of the message search tool

From: tgpedersen
Message: 62682
Date: 2009-01-31

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Moderators,
> >
> > I think there may be some problem with the group's message search
> > tool, which used to work fine till yesterday.
> >
> > While searching for a certain message today, I typed the
> > term "vajda" (without quotation marks) in the search box, and the
> > result was that, in the last few days, only msg. #62672 contains
> > this word according to the group's search tool. Yet, as a matter
> > of fact, just in the last few days the name of this scholar was
> > included in at least these cybalist messages:
> >
> > #62663
> > #62669
> > #62670
> > #62672
> > #62674
> > #62676
> >
> > I have tried with other key words (for instance, "yeniseian",
> > which was used many times in messages posted in the last few
> > days), and the result was similar.
> >
> > Try yourself!
> >
> > I have also checked whether the same problem arises with the
> > message search tool of other Lists I am member of, but in those
> > cases the tool works. Therefore, the problem seems to affect
> > cybalist only.
> >
> > Please see what you can do to solve this problem (the message
> > search function is very important in the case of cybalist!):
> >
> > Thanks and best regards,
> > Francesco

I've noticed it a couple of days back. With some common searches the
first hit I get is from december last year.


> ==========
>
> I tried with Vajda
> and I got 18 messages in 1.035 second
>
> Yeniseian : 78 messages in 0.678 second

From when?

> What is your Chinese astrological sign ?
>
> The Omni-Documentalist is faltering.
> Bad news.
>
> Arnaud
>
> PS
>
> I'm not sure that kind of issues belong to Cybalist.

Half your remarks don't.


Torsten