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  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) One thing which would generally make it pretty easy to find URLs is to index "http". When dealing with special characters, definitely treat "/" and "\" as word separators. Probably ":" also. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Pretty much... actually, I was thinking more along the lines of an advanced search form though: Search for: ___...___ (uses +'s and -'s as is) Search for text in subject line [] (checkbox) Posted by: ___...___ (uses +'s and -'s... or no (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Sure! (...) These are mostly covered already due to the way the indexing works -- words closer to the beginning of a document are given higher weights than words occurring later in a document. When the indexer chews on a news article, it first (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) <snip> (...) I would have to concur. (...) < goes away and tries it... > Umm - Would it not make sense to simply include the appropriate qualifier on the system side? (I tried it and got two year old results for "qs", but I'm probably doing (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Not yet, no. See "to-do soon" section in previous post. (...) For now, if you don't mind URL mucking, you can manually append &qs=<number> to the URL and it will use that number (in seconds) as a time delta. For example, to limit posts to the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Could you tell us the URL syntax for those of us willing to modify URLs? (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Could I suggest some amendments to the "To do someday" list (for an 'advanced search' only)? - Search by author - Search by subject line contents - Search by date range (or open-ended-- i.e. after date X or before date X) - Search for articles (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Very good! Although the new search doesn't return most recent articles first like it used to. Is that how it should work? Now I can't see most recent posts that contain the keyword I want to search for, which makes the search pretty much (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
The LUGNET News search function is now re-enabled. I completely revamped the index data structures and list-merge algorithm and rewrote the core query engine in C. It's a much more solid implementation. Everyone's patience during the outage is much (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !! 
 
  Local happenings in Australia
 
Just a note to let people know that I've thrown together a bulletin board type page, with essential links and upcoming events listed. Any suggested improvements? I thought that the local LUG pages and this effort of mine could be handy resource (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.admin.general)  


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