On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Dan Robinson Indexing Services wrote:
> In general database searching, NEAR is usually defined as
> operating within a 'sentence'.  A 'sentence' usually ends with a
> period, but in some databases, other characters can end a logical
> sentence. For example in one system, words within parentheses
> are searched as an independent 'sentence'. Does L-Soft have
> symbols other than a period that end a logical sentence?

Yes, but, the LISTSERV NEAR pays no attention to sentences, nor to
periods; it blithely skips back and forth across such boundaries.

Douglas