Re: negative queries

2007-06-18 Thread Chris Hostetter
: > And (most) spammers, which is really the point of requiring a : > profile. : : I believe this is called "throwing the baby out with the bath water." you obviously haven't seen the amount of spam that the apache wikis use to get ... The account creation form currently asks you a simple qu

Re: negative queries

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Noll
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 11:03:25 Erik Hatcher wrote: > > Good way to discourage potential contributors I suppose. > > And (most) spammers, which is really the point of requiring a > profile. I believe this is called "throwing the baby out with the bath water." Daniel -- Daniel Noll Nuix Pt

Re: negative queries

2007-06-18 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jun 18, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Daniel Noll wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007 00:24:39 Steven Rowe wrote: In order to edit wiki pages, you must create a profile and be logged in. Click on the "Login" link in the upper right hand of the front page, to the left of the Search box. Fill out the f

Re: negative queries

2007-06-18 Thread Daniel Noll
On Tuesday 19 June 2007 00:24:39 Steven Rowe wrote: > In order to edit wiki pages, you must create a profile and be logged in. > > Click on the "Login" link in the upper right hand of the front page, to > the left of the Search box. > > Fill out the form that comes up, and click on the "Create Prof

Re: negative queries

2007-06-18 Thread Steven Rowe
Hi Daniel, Daniel Noll wrote: > On Saturday 16 June 2007 11:39:35 Chris Hostetter wrote: >> : The mailing list has already answered this question dozens of times. >> : I've been wondering lately, does this list have a FAQ? If so, is this >> : question on it? >> >> The wiki is open to editing by

Re: negative queries

2007-06-17 Thread Daniel Noll
On Saturday 16 June 2007 11:39:35 Chris Hostetter wrote: > : The mailing list has already answered this question dozens of times. > : I've been wondering lately, does this list have a FAQ? If so, is this > : question on it? > > The wiki is open to editing by all. The FAQ page claims to be immuta

Re: negative queries

2007-06-15 Thread Chris Hostetter
: The mailing list has already answered this question dozens of times. I've : been wondering lately, does this list have a FAQ? If so, is this question on : it? The wiki is open to editing by all. Here are a couple choice threads related to this topic which should be of interest both to the th

Re: negative queries

2007-06-15 Thread Paul Elschot
On Friday 15 June 2007 03:07, Antony Sequeira wrote: > Hi > I am aware that with Lucene I can not do negative only queries such as > -foo:bar > > But today I ran into an issue where I realized even queries such as > +foo:bar +(-goobly:doo) > also never return any results. Could you try this:

Re: negative queries

2007-06-15 Thread Steven Rowe
Hi Antony, Antony Sequeira wrote: > In the attached test file I am using string queries and showing the > failure case. The attachment didn't make it for some reason. > Basically I get the impression that I can not have a clause like > +(-x:y) anywhere in my query. What follows assumes that the

Re: negative queries

2007-06-15 Thread Steven Rowe
Daniel Noll wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 11:07:25 Antony Sequeira wrote: >> Hi >> I am aware that with Lucene I can not do negative only queries such as >> -foo:bar > > The mailing list has already answered this question dozens of times. I've > been wondering lately, does this list have a F

Re: negative queries

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel Noll
On Friday 15 June 2007 11:07:25 Antony Sequeira wrote: > Hi > I am aware that with Lucene I can not do negative only queries such as > -foo:bar The mailing list has already answered this question dozens of times. I've been wondering lately, does this list have a FAQ? If so, is this question o

negative queries

2007-06-14 Thread Antony Sequeira
Hi I am aware that with Lucene I can not do negative only queries such as -foo:bar But today I ran into an issue where I realized even queries such as +foo:bar +(-goobly:doo) also never return any results. Basically I get the impression that I can not have a clause like +(-x:y) anywhere in my