On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:09:02 -0400, Daniel Lin wrote:
>> My searches give equal weight to the body text, and the total relevance of
>> a particular post is proportional to how many times the search terms
>appeared.
>> So a search for "tornado" would turn up this post before any of the other
>> posts on the subject, even without fixing the spelling in the subject
>line.
>
>But searches through only the subject are a lot faster than searches that
>look through the bodies as well.

That's highly platform- and archive-format-dependent:

[ron@fwi news]$ date;search -iindex/povray.off-topic qwyjibo;date
Wed Jun 13 15:37:53 EST 2001
# results: 0
Wed Jun 13 15:37:54 EST 2001
[ron@fwi news]$ ls povray/off-topic | wc -l
  26515

What this says is that I searched my entire archive of off-topic (26515
articles) in a second or so.  That includes subjects, authors, bodies, 
and everything else.  Surprisingly, nobody has mentioned the word
'qwyjibo' there yet.

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