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Re: Search on members posting history
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:54:28 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Allister McLaren writes:
> Hi,
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> I have a quick question: Is there any way to display a posting history of a
> particular member?
No, but you can fake it moderately well using search options (although
there's no guarantees). First off, I were looking to do a search for all
your posts, I would enter:
+Allister +McLaren
However, that search returns 12 posts by people OTHER than you out of 174
matches. Refined search:
+Allister +McLaren +allistermclaren +bigpond
Now, this one returns ONLY posts by you, but only because nobody else ever
used your email address AND your name in the same post. However, I did
notice that there should be at least 162 posts by you, and this search only
returned 137. Hence, you must have used a different email address at some
point. So, I check quickly to see what I've missed:
+Allister +McLaren -allistermclaren -bigpond
That reveals 37 posts, 12 by others, 25 by you, with a different email
address as suspected. Hence, I search for:
+Allister +McLaren +amclaren +bechtel +spambegone
And I find the missing 25 posts by you.
Anyway, it's a bit of effort since there isn't an advanced search in place,
but it's doable, and generally is 99% or so accurate if you're looking for
statistics.
DaveE
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