Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Searching Archives

echnidna wrote:

>Hi Group
>When we do a keyword search of the archives only the last 1000 posts are searched. Do a simple trial yourself by searching for "welcome" which was the very first message posted. You won't find it!
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>So finding info in the previous 51000 odd messages is impossible without opening each message individually.
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>Because of the huge amount of info posted by this group it seems that some way of searching all messages would benefit all of us.
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>So how can we organise this info so any of us can find things easily?
>
>Some Possibilities;
>put it all into a word document so we can use the find facility.
>put into htm format on a freebie website so we can use search facility.
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>As there are over 52000 messages, whatever is done will probably mean that a team of us will need to set it all up.
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>

One possibility is using some indexing tools to find the several
thousand most common words, striking
the common english words (and, but, for, is, etc.), and then using the
remaining words in a searchable
index. This index would pop up the articles that contain those specific
words. I'm pretty sure software
that does this is available.

Jon