[seqfan] Re: Loss of recent.txt, or a computer-assisted way to search through the "approved" listings

[Alexander P-sky]

>but they will expire in the next
> two weeks and the keyword will go back to matching
> fewer sequences.
So what users suppose to do now - before  the two weeks will pass ?
Could you fix this bug now instead of waiting for two weeks ?
Could you describe exactly for how long the keyword "new" will be kept
after two weeks will pass ?
I still would prefer to have recent.txt be restored and maintained.

ARP

On 11/17/10, Russ Cox <rsc at swtch.com> wrote:
>> For example, one could search recent.txt for a keyword like "Lucas", or
>> for someone's name or whatever.
>
> My understanding is that recent.txt was the same
> information as keyword:new.  If that's the case,
> then it seems like you should be able to search for
> [keyword:new Lucas], no?
>
> Unfortunately keyword:new is a bit overzealous
> right now because there were a bunch of changes
> during the transition - right now there are 29,000
> "new" sequences - but they will expire in the next
> two weeks and the keyword will go back to matching
> fewer sequences.
>
> Russ
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Munafo <mrob27 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:20:44 -0500
Subject: [seqfan]  Loss of recent.txt, or a computer-assisted way to
search through the "approved" listings
To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>,
"peter.luschny" <peter.luschny at googlemail.com>, Russ Cox
<rsc at swtch.com>

I thought this was about losing information, and it was really about the
loww of recent.txt, or finding a way to search for recent edits without
wading through all recent edits.

Did we ever answer that? Because that interests me too.

It would be fairly tedious to look through all the
http://oeis.org/history/approved pages for recent edits that match a given
set of search criteria, which is what recent.txt allowed.

For example, one could search recent.txt for a keyword like "Lucas", or for
someone's name or whatever.