RE: FTS comments

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>   I think that the user really wishes to do phrase search.
> 
>   All the above specifications are just (poor) approximations on that
>   goal.  I don't think that the user wishes to think about the word
>   order or the number of intervening stopwords that are allowed. 

I agree with you, certainly as far as the average end user is concerned. But
the "power users", professional librarians and the like, seem to want this
fine-grained control.
>   
> 
> Kai
> -- 
> A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
> 

Or as Winston Churchill said: this is nonsense up with which I will not put.

Michael Kay