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Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
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Date: 
Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:20:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Thomas Avery wrote:
How would I go about searching for old messages in a specific group
that have been highlighted or spotlighted by members?

For example, I want to find all the h/s'd posts in .technic in the
past 2 years. How can this be done?

AFAIK, it cannot be done yet. Another thing to add to the 'Advanced
Search' feature. One day, we'll have such a thing :)

Dan

Well, can the spotlight page
(http://www.lugnet.com/spotlight.cgi?days=7&threshold=50&sort=fuzzy) be
modified so that you can look back more than 14 days? Or could it be
modified so that you could search a particular time span (e.g. March 1, 2000
to May 1, 2000)?

I did try searching in NEWS for "(details)" as that text appears in the
message head once it's been highlighted. However, the search resulted with
only messages that contained "details". Does the search feature scan the
message headings, or does it ignore punctuation?

TJ



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  Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
(...) I haven't really looked into it yet, but from what I know, the index that is used just indexes the article data, and the author's name/email. The '(details)' you see will not show up anyway, since it's not part of the article at all - it's (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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  Re: Searching for Highlighted/Spotlighted Posts
 
(...) AFAIK, it cannot be done yet. Another thing to add to the 'Advanced Search' feature. One day, we'll have such a thing :) Dan (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.admin.general)

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