Hello Everyone,

We've been eluding to the inferiority of the old indexes for some time
now. They take longer to load, require more resources on the back-end
side, and just don't show as much data as the new indexes.

The only real problem is some members absolutely love the layout of the
old indexes and can't imagine the site without them. For that reason we
have no desire to get rid of them, instead we've enhanced them so that
users of the old indexes will now enjoy the same quick performance that
is now experienced by users of the new indexes along with the expanded
retention available on the new indexes.

Before we make a full cut over to the new algorithm we want to get your
feedback to ensure we haven't missed anything.

Here's an example with the old algorithm:

http://members.easynews.com/group.html?group=alt.binaries.pictures.autos

Here's an example with the new algorithm:

http://members.easynews.com/idx.html?group=alt.binaries.pictures.autos&sc=0&skp=1&it=1&s1d=-&s1=day&s2=from&s3=subject&sS=6

Let us know what you think!

Thanks!

-Russ