>>Meh. Tried it.... That's a SLOW and PAINFUL way to discover content.
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>>You should allow the Search functionality to work on a Category and Date Range but without forcing us to enter a search phrase. Why must a serach phrase be entered? I want a "Show me all the messages in the Blah category" type of feature.
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>It is because the search is targeting at a specific way of locating messages, thus by the use of search key words. It is still not clear about the best approach to answer this request. Because, if someone would enter a date range for two years on a specific categories, on some of them, you would end up with thousands of messages, which would be useless in the search result.

You can always limit the result to N (say, 500) top records.