"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes: > When searching the mailing lists in advanced search mode we have list > filtering, timeframe filtering (pretty coarse though) and then sorting > mode. For moderately long running threads a search term is going to return > many messages from the same thread. It would desirable to ask that only > threads be shown and maybe how many individual messages in that thread > matched.
+1, an option to do that would be handy. No idea how hard it is ...
Should this replace the current interface, or do we want to make something like this a choice?
I would have it be a choice under the advanced search options with possibly an option on the search results page to "See thread results only".