Subject: Subjects-only search of Pine Discussion Forum archives

From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 16:35:02 -0700 (PDT)

If you have been using the searchable full-text index of the Pine
Discussion Forum archives on the World Wide Web -- 

URL:   http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/ 

-- to search for previous discourse on a topic of interest, you may have
found that your query retrieved many messages of little relevance to the
subject.  For example, your query on "PGP" ("pretty good privacy" 
encryption) might have retrieved a message that has nothing to do with that
topic, but contained a 'signature' with the message sender's PGP key. 

To overcome that problem, the WWW Pine Discussion Forum archives now
include a searchable index of ONLY the subject lines of messages (based on
the assumption that the subject line adequately summarizes most messages'
content). 

On the page at the aforementioned URL, you will now find two "search" 
links: one for the familiar full-text index, and a new one (below it) for
the subject-line-only index.  If you encounter any problems with, or have
comments about, this new feature, please write to: [email-masked]

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  Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
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  Computing & Communications        University of Washington    
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