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This interface allows access to the messages contained in the archives of the UNREV-II mailing list. It is a prototype, half broken, and completely without guarantee. Contact cdent@burningchrome.com with questions and requests.

Subject and body searches are on words that are 4 letters or longer. Turn on boolean mode to avoid MySQL's relevancy calculations.

The interface beyond this page is more interesting and sometimes quite revealing. To get there search on something like "colloquium" to get a large number of results.

More complete documentation will be available at a later time, your helpful suggestions are very much appreciated. Here is a simple outline of the process:

• Choose one of the four search methods--body, subject, from or descriptors and select the associated submit button.
• When using descriptors, you may select multiple descriptors.
• Select an evaluation score limit for your search. Scores range from 0 to 10 (worst to best). An unscored message has a score of 0. If you select 5 your results will include all messages that have a score of 5 or more.
• You will be presented with a set of messages that match your search criteria. If you find a message or set of message particularly useful or not useful, give it or them a score with the provided interface.
• Messages sets are presented with the following information in the following order:
  • Score: the average evaluation of this message followed by the number of evaluations this message has had.
  • Read: a link that leads to a page where the message can be read.
  • Subject: the subject of the message. Clicking here will return the set of documents that have this subject.
  • From: the from of the message. Clicking here will return the set of documents that are from this author.
  • Date: the date of the message. Clicking here will return the set of documents that are in a 24 hour window surrounding this time.
• When you "read" a message:
  • "Prev" and "Next" buttons are provided that allow you to traverse the set of documents that were created as a result of your search.
  • You may assign a descriptor to the message you are viewing. By so doing you are annotating the message with your interpretation of the content of the message. Please send suggestions for keywords to the email address below.
  • Descriptor buttons are provided that allow you to find other messages that are of the same "type". (At this time very few messages are coded, do some coding to make this worthwhile.)
• Background Information

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