> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:41:49 -0400
> From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> >     title=john and smith
> >     title=(john and smith)
> >     (title=john) and (smith)
>
> I don't think so.  Parens are mandatory around operator triples and
> quotes are mandatory around terms.

What?!  I _certainly_ don't remember agreeing to _this_!

> The query could be (title="john" and "smith") where smith is search
> using the default index or it could be (title="john" and
> title="smith") or it could be title="john and smith".  None of the
> above examples are legal.

Well, that's awful.

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