Comments on: rebuilding bikelist.org archives

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:51:55 +0000

Vo — Nothing will be deleted and I”m going to great extents to make sure that old message URLs will work with the new archives.

Alex — I”ve had bad luck in the past with Google overindexing my site and killing my available bandwidth. We”ll see how they do with the new system.

By: Alex Yip

Alex Yip — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:37:08 +0000

Hi Alex, Thanks for running the email lists and archives.
I use the search function often, and improvements are always welcome.

In addition to your custom indexing system, you might try to make the archives easily indexable by Google and Yahoo, etc. Their indexers are highly refined for speed and language processing and can be good for augmenting the site’’s custom built-in search funtions.

- Alex

By: Vo Tran

Vo Tran — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:42:59 +0000

thanks for hosting these lists. i actually like the current archive design and use them alot. but whatever you do please don”t loose or delete any of the great content. it is a great resource and i”m sure i”m not the only one who uses it frequently. Please keep it all and don”t delete any!!!!!! thanks Vo

By: Brian Loudon

Brian Loudon — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:19:36 +0000

Yay, it lives!

Body text on message tree view needs some padding. The text is jammed against the edge of the viewport.

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:31:11 +0000

You need to put phrases in quotes when using boolean search, that is why it isn”t the default. At some point I”ll have a more helpful syntax page come up when you do something illegal.

Try searching for:
rohloff and “karate monkey”

By: christian

christian — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:21:16 +0000

hey, this looks great and will be really useful. I got an error when trying a boolean search:

Server Error in ”/beta” Application.
Syntax error near ”monkey” in the full-text search condition ”rohloff AND karate monkey”.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Syntax error near ”monkey” in the full-text search condition ”rohloff AND karate monkey”.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[SqlException (0x80131904): Syntax error near ''monkey'' in the full-text search condition ''rohloff AND karate monkey''.]
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +862234
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +739110
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +188
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +1956
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.HasMoreRows() +150
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ReadInternal(Boolean setTimeout) +214
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.Read() +9
System.Data.Common.DataAdapter.FillLoadDataRow(SchemaMapping mapping) +156
System.Data.Common.DataAdapter.FillFromReader(DataSet dataset, DataTable datatable, String srcTable, DataReaderContainer dataReader, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, DataColumn parentChapterColumn, Object parentChapterValue) +153
System.Data.Common.DataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet, String srcTable, IDataReader dataReader, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords) +172
System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillInternal(DataSet dataset, DataTable[] datatables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +175
System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +137
System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet, String srcTable) +83
System.Web.UI.WebControls.SqlDataSourceView.ExecuteSelect(DataSourceSelectArguments arguments) +1770
System.Web.UI.DataSourceView.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments arguments, DataSourceViewSelectCallback callback) +17
System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataBoundControl.PerformSelect() +149
System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataBoundControl.DataBind() +70
System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView.DataBind() +4
System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataBoundControl.EnsureDataBound() +82
System.Web.UI.WebControls.CompositeDataBoundControl.CreateChildControls() +69
System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls() +87
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +41
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1360

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:05:53 +0000

Pulling a random search result isn”t too hard.

I might add a feature where it shows a random message on the homepage at some point — click on it to read the rest of the thread. I”ll have to think about how that will look.

By: Myrcurial

Myrcurial — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:39:18 +0000

Thanks again for all of your work in hosting the lists…

Do you have the capability in the search to pull a random result from the return set. Would be interesting to pull random quotes from some of the more verbose posters to the list. Kinda like the “I”m feeling lucky” button on google