[Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Tue Jan 29 00:05:44 CET 2008


Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>
>But I was referring to search-results only. Regardless of how the messages
>are stored, if I type the search string and select several of the mailing
>list archives to search through, the same message may appear in my search
>results more than once. That duplication should not happen -- I don't think,
>anyone would disagree.


I disagree. If there are multiple ways to access the same message, a
search engine should find all of them. If you want the search engine
to supress the duplicates, that's fine, but that's a job for the
search engine, not the archiver.

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