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  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) It works great! ... but the &qs doesn't carry over to the next page of results. So if I want to see more pages, I have to edit the querystring on each page. Since you already have the inner workings of this in place, it would be really easy to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) oops, doy! I didn't put in the propagation of that URL term. I don't consider it 100% "documented" yet (it's still subject to change without notice), but I still shouldn't have missed that. Thanks. I'll fix that. The reason it's subject to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Wow! So you have terms for the ampersand options in a URL? My standpoint on this would be to put everything in a form and kill 2 birds with 1 stone - not having to think of how to name URL terms (unless you enjoy doing that) and having the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Ya, exactly -- first name the URL components carefully and then put a user- friendly level on top of it. Best of both worlds. (...) Ah, I see. Yeah, that could be helpful in certain cases, if you're scouring tons of results! I've needed to (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: News search function reactivated (was: News search function temporarily disabled)
 
(...) Todd, this would be really useful. I'll often search for a recent post, only remembering the poster's name and maybe one or two key-words, and that the post was in the past few days. I don't need two year old messages nearly as frequently. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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