Subject: New Search Features (was Re: Xapian-assisted spam reporting for fun and glee)
Newsgroups: gmane.discuss
Date: 2006-12-03 03:01:56 GMT (1 year, 23 weeks, 3 days, 5 hours and 37 minutes ago)
On 2006-12-01, Olly Betts <olly <at> survex.com> wrote:
> Use: -group:gmane.mail.spam.*
>
> You can omit the gmane. as it's implied: -group:mail.spam.*
>
> For obscure reasons, this breaks the paging in the web front end which I
> need to fix before this can usefully be advertised in the help, but it
> should be fine with nnweb.
Turns out I'd actually fixed the main problem in the newer Xapian
release I've just installed, so you can now specify "author:" and
"group:" before terms in your query (handy if you're using the
Firefox search plugin, for example).
Some examples:
penny stock -group:gmane.mail.spam.*
gnus author:larsi <at> gnus.org
changing name author:john author:smith
I've also added a "short url for this search" link to the (top right) of
the search results. This is generally significantly shorter than the
URL of the results page.
You can right-click and choose "Copy Link Location" (with Firefox - I
suspect there's something similar in other browsers) and then paste this
into emails and webpages
Cheers,
Olly