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Re: Suggestion/Request for proposal consideration
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Date: 
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:40:21 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org&StopSpammers&
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Paul Sinasohn <bearitone@my-deja.com> wrote:
Would it be possible to copy the "set search" field/button (and its underlying
code) from the home page to the top-level pages for these groups?

Actually -- and not that I'm complaining or anything *grin* -- this brings
up one of the (very few) things I don't like about the web interface. I
appreciate the elegance of having simply a selection-free text input box at
the top of the page for searching. But it'd be nice to be able to choose to
also search all of LUGnet, or certain other subsets (just newsgroups, or
just set numbers). You shouldn't have to keep returning to the front page to
do these searches.

Also, it'd be really nice if there were a submit button, so (via cut&paste)
the whole process could be totally keyboardless.


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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Re: Suggestion/Request for proposal consideration
 
(...) Good point...Sometimes I like to use Neoplanet (web browser), and when I type in (or paste) something in the search box, hitting the enter button does nothing...(probably neoplanet's fault), but still a pain in the butt. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Suggestion/Request for proposal consideration
 
Todd, et al... I use the web interface to LUGNET exclusively. It is quite common for a posting in the buy-sell-trade, shopping, or auction group to reference a set number. Most of those references are without a link to the PAUSE database (though (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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