Re: Communal/collaborative languages now possible at CALS

* Mark J. Reed said on 2008-08-20 00:17:30 +0200
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:09 AM, taliesin the storyteller
> <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> > I think I have *seen* it, but I can't find it now... quite annoying.
> > <peeve type="pet">One of the most useful tools for finding a mail is
> > *sorting*, be it alphabetically, by size or by date recedived but
> > gmail doesn't *do* that.</peeve>
>
> Technically, sorting is a reporting tool, not a search tool.  If you
> want to search for something, just search for it.  That's what the
> little box at the top of the page is for, ya know.  :)
Ah, but the *result of the search* isn't sortable. For instance
searching for anything Jim Henry might have sent to me within so and so
a timespan, then sort on dates, or for conlang, sort on subjects (though
that was more of a necessity in the old days where subject lines were
truncated and slightly changed east and west...). I have no idea just
what criteria they use to order the results. Structured data like the
meta-data of an email shouldn't be treated as unstructured data like
text.


t.

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