Hi Dennis :-) Dennis Nichols wrote:

Greetings - I continue to find your Zope email archives very useful. Thanks for the effort of providing them. I've noticed two problems with the search, both illustrated by this example:

For the mailing list Zope-PTK Search for tree Set "sort by" to Date, newest first

The results returned have these two problems

1. They are not sorted by date (or anything else that I can determine)

There was a problem here, which I've fixed, but messages won't always be exactly sorted by date. Unfortunately (beyond my control) the 'sort-by-date' in the search results uses the last modified date of the document in the database. This is not always the same as the delivered date from the MTA but is _usually_ in the same order and so doesn't make a difference.

2. The report of the total matches found shown on the first page (26) is not the same as the report of the total matches found reported on the second and following pages (55).

This is true. The number of matches returned is an estimate (again, something from Lotus Notes and so beyond my control... which is why I prefer Zope ;-) which for some reason is inaccurate on the first page if more than about 50 matches are found but then becomes accurate once you view the second page.

I do not believe these problems are specific to the example I cite.

Correct, the above issues apply to all the archives. I hope these problems aren't serious enough to impact the usefulness of the list archives :S Thanks for pointing them out, Chris PS: The archives, for anyone who doesn't know yet, are at: http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists.html