Aminet status update December 2006

[Matt_H]

Cheers for your continued work, but I would like to complain about the basic, default search feature. It looks like it now uses an OR operator between words, which means getting more descriptive about the package you're looking for generates MORE results to sift through, instead of narrowing it down. Any chance we could see the old algorithm, at least as an option?

[Matt_H]

Aminet DNS seems to be down at the moment; I'll test it when it comes back online.

[Matt_H]

I was searching for the ARexx script to invoke a browser to view HTML emails from YAM. Search terms: "yam html"

Resulted in 922 packages, including this one which is completely irrelevant. I'm sure there are more as well.

I'd like to recommend that the old search be reimplemented as the default (people are used to it, after all), and any improvements be made to the new advanced search instead.