htDig to mnoGoSearch - gripes and questions

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi,

I may as well come out with it... I have been disappointed with 
mnoGoSearch since it took over from htDig as the mail archive search tool.

This is an overall disappointment, but for the benefit of having a 
tangible problem to solve, I cannot simply type "make" as the search 
term of the cygwin-announce mailing archive, and find the announcement 
(however long ago it was) for GNU make.

Steps to reproduce:

- Go to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/
- Enter "make" (without the quotes) as the search term, and click the 
Search button.
- Expect a result page with 5 links, none of which have make in the subject.
- Try to refine the search by clicking the Extended button.
- Expect to be take to the extended search page, with "make" already 
included as the search term.
- Select "Title" from the "In" drop-down box (I also think it's 
unfortunate that you must make the connection with the term Subject on 
your own).
- Click the "Search!" button again.
- Now you get a results page which do have "make" in the subject, but 
are off the cygwin-announce mailing list.

A couple of questions:

- When did it take over from htDig?
- Was it discussed in public (I searched on the cygwin mailing list, but 
I only found one hit on the search term "htdig mnoGoSearch")?
- What was the rationale behind the migration?

Thanks in advance,
Shaddy

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