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To: jbe who wrote (1406)	8/6/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: Paul K	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2340

"Nobody -- and not even a group of bodies -- is going to be able to maintain an index consistently" This is why I think the feature-rich<g> search function SI is working on is so important. Table of Contents or Indexes are a pretty way of presenting manually-massaged global search results... can most of this be accomplished automatically? It's not like we need to look up page numbers, as is the customary useage in a book. eg: What I'd like to see is keyword search that results in a list of matched posts and their (non-keyword matched) responses in a hierarchical tree format.

To: jbe who wrote (1406)	8/6/1999 9:42:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 2340

Public Folders Nobody -- and not even a group of bodies -- is going to be able to maintain an index consistently. (I know it took a lot of time for me to assemble a few "best of posts" anthologies "after the fact.") But you did. And if it were a little easier others may be tempted to share their efforts too. I believe the capability would be used for 'anthologies' similar to your effort. I doubt we will see any COMPLETE thread indices. Thanks for the support Zeuspaul and not even a group of bodies -- is going to be able to maintain an index consistently I agree it will not happen. However five interested people certainly could maintain a quality index.