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Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:10:25 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
It just always happens.  Someone says something vague, someone else guesses
something about it, someone else adds another guess, someone else adds another
guess, and before you know it, everything's way off track.  I hate it when
that happens and I don't have time to jump and respond in until it's too late.

Sorry for having contributed to wasted bandwidth, though I do hope you
will give some thought to the ideas of splitting up the members list as
I had suggested, and some kind of "recentness" limit to the search,
though I realize that the underlying data structure may not result in
those operations saving CPU time (and could possibly be more time
consuming depending on implementation), I just feel they would be useful
features for us the users.

Frank



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(...) Yes, definitely! And the flags can link to country pages that list just the people in the country. (...) It actually won't incur extra overhead (amazingly, it will actually reduce overhead) to restrict things to hard or soft time ranges, so (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) I'm sorry. I know. You're right. It just always happens. Someone says something vague, someone else guesses something about it, someone else adds another guess, someone else adds another guess, and before you know it, everything's way off (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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