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Re: Error with searching lugnet.off-topic.test?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 02:11:42 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton writes:
> > Not that it really gets used much, but I just had some odd experiences doing
> > searches from the web interface for lugnet.off-topic.test... I entered my
> > name to search for it, and no posts were found (despite the fact that I HAVE
> > posted to off-topic.test)!
> > Could this have something to do perhaps with the fact that I 'screen out'
> > messages from lugnet.off-topic.test thanks to the little screening cookie?
> > Anyway, an oddity :)
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> Messages to .off-topic.test are ignored by the indexer. (All other groups are
> indexed as normal.) Low-level DAT content (the scores and scores of numbers
> are also ignored, although the non-number parts do get indexed.)
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> The web interface to the newsgroups doesn't know this, so it displays a search
> box. (I'd call that an interface bug. :)
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> --Todd
Yup. And since Todd did not mention this explicitly, this has always been the
case. Impossible to search .off-topic.test from the web interface--from the
homepage, the off-topic page, or from the off-topic.test page.
Newsreaders, however, can perform the searches you want very easily.
__Kevin Salm__
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| (...) Messages to .off-topic.test are ignored by the indexer. (All other groups are indexed as normal.) Low-level DAT content (the scores and scores of numbers are also ignored, although the non-number parts do get indexed.) The web interface to the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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