[INDOLOGY] Re: Searching the Indology List Archive

[Harry Spier]

Dear Palaniappan,
It looks like you've identified another bug with the browse function.  As
far as I can see, it only shows threads when you browse by month for a date
Feb. 2013 or later.
Harry Spier


On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 8:24 PM Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan <palaniappa at aol.com>
wrote:

> Dear Harry,
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> Thank you.
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> Just compare the browse feature for the months of January 2021 and October
> 2012.
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> The October 2012 results shows individual posts, which you can cite.
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> https://list.indology.info/empathy/list/indology.list.indology.info?sort_by=date_desc&month=2012-10
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> The January 2021 results show threads which include posts in February or
> later too.
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> https://list.indology.info/empathy/list/indology.list.indology.info?sort_by=date_desc&month=2021-1
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> The search function works only on single words and Boolean search is not
> possible.
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> Regards,
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> Palaniappan
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> *From: *Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 5:05 PM
> *To: *"palaniappa at aol.com" <palaniappa at aol.com>
> *Cc: *indology <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Searching the Indology List Archive
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> Dear Sudalaimuthu,
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> Like you I find the Indology list archives invaluable and I ran into
> problems.
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> There was a bug in the browse by month feature (it only displayed the
> first 25 entries correctly  ) but that seems to be fixed now, so I'm OK
> with the new archives browse feature now that I'm used to it.
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> I prefer the new archives "search" function.  I found with the original
> archives "search" function, the same post was displayed multiple times. But
> I would have liked something like the google groups search function, where
> you can filter searchs by poster, date, contents or if it has an attachment.
>
> Harry Spier
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> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 4:43 PM Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> The earlier Indology archive and its browse and search functions worked
> very well. The new Indology archive and its search function have created a
> terrible problem where none existed. It is hard to search and hone in on
> specific posts to cite them. The Indology archive was a very valuable
> knowledge database. But, it is terrible to use right now. Is it just me or
> do other members have run into problems too? If yes, can we go back to the
> earlier system a la the Coca Cola experience?
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> Thank you.
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> Regards,
>
> Palaniappan
>
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